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Strong's #2874 - κοπρία
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- dung, manure
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κοπρ-ία, ἡ, (cf. κόπερρα)
I dunghill, Semon. 7.6 (pl.), Stratt. 43, Arist. Mir. 845a5 (pl.), LXX Job 2:8, Ascl ap. Gal. 12.634, etc.; in Egypt, rubbish-heap, PRyl. 2.162.17 (ii A. D.), etc.; ἀναιρεῖσθαι ἀπὸ κοπρίας, of foundlings, PGnom. 238, cf. 115 (ii A. D.), POxy. 37i7 (i A. D.).
II refuse, ἐν σείσματι κοσκίνου διαμένει κ. LXX Si. 27.4; manure, Luke 13:8 (v.l. κόπρια).
κοπρία (Chandler § 96), κοπρίας, ἡ, equivalent to ἡ κόπρος, dung: Luke 13:8 Rec.st;
STRONGS NT 2874: κόπριον κόπριον, κόπριον, τό, equivalent to ἡ κόπρος, dung, manure: plural, Luke 13:8 (Rec.st κοπρίαν). (Heraclitus in Plutarch, mor., p. 669 (quaest. conviv. book iv. quaest. iv. § 3, 6); Strabo 16, § 26, p. 784; Epictetus diss. 2, 4, 5; Plutarch, Pomp c. 48; (Isaiah 5:25; Jeremiah 32:19
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κοπρία , -ας , ἡ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H830;]
a dung hill (1 Samuel 2:8, Psalms 113:7 al.): Luke 14:35.†
κόπριον , -ου , τό ,
[in LXX (pl.): Jeremiah 25:33 (H1828), Sirach 22:2, 1 Maccabees 2:62*;]
= κόπρος , dung: pl., Luke 13:8 (WH, mg., κόφινον κοπρίων ).†
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This NT ἅπ. εἰρ. (Luke 14:35) may be illustrated from P Oxy 1. 37i. 6 (A.D. 49) (= Selections, p. 49) Πεσοῦρις. . . ἀνεῖλεν ἀπὸ κοπρίας ἀρρενικὸν σωμάτιον ὄνομα Ἡρακ [λᾶν, ";Pesouris picked up from the dung-heap a male foundling named Heraclas,"; P Ryl II. 162.17 (A.D. 159) βορρᾶ κοπρία, ";on the north a dung-heap."; On this word as common to the NT and the comic poets, see Kennedy Sources, p. 72 ff. : it survives in MGr. The wider usage of κοπρία to denote the spot where all kinds of rubbish are gathered together is discussed by Wilcken Archiv ii. p. 311 f.
(cf. κόπριον)
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