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Strong's #4663 - σκώληξ
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- a worm, spec. that kind which preys upon dead bodies
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σκώληξ, ηκος, ὁ, worm, esp. earthworm, ὥς τε σκώληξ ἐπὶ γαίῃ κεῖτο ταθείς Il. 13.654 .
2. pl., grubs or larvae of insects, Ar. V. 1111, Fr. 583, Nicopho 1, Thphr. HP 8.10.4; ἐξ οὗ ὅλου ὅλον γίνεται τὸ ζῷον, opp. the egg ( ᾠόν ), Arist. HA 489b8, cf. GA 733a1, HA 506a26, 551b2, al.
3. pl., worms in dung, in decayed matter, in trees and wood, Thphr. HP 3.12.6, 5.4.4, etc.
4. metaph., οἱ κόλακές εἰσι . . οὐσίας σκώληκες Anaxil. 33.1 .
5. aerugo vermicularis, Dsc. 5.79, Androm. ap. Gal. 13.806.
II thread twisted from the distaff, Epig. 7 . III Aeol. for κολόκυμα, Pl.Com. 25, cf. Phryn. PS p.108 B., Hsch., Phot. worm-shaped cake, Alciphr. Fr. 6. heap of threshed corn, Hsch.
σκώληξ, σκωληκος, ὁ (perhaps akin to σκολιός), a worm (Homer, Iliad 13, 654); specifically, that kind which preys upon dead bodies (Sir. 10:11 Sir. 19:3; 2 Macc. 9:9; Anthol. 7, 480, 3; 10, 78, 3): ὁ σκώληξ αὐτῶν οὐ τελευτᾷ, by a figure borrowed from Isaiah 66:24 (cf. Sir. 7:17; Judith 16:17), 'their punishment after death will never cease' (σκώληξ symbolizing perhaps the loathsomeness of the penalty), Mark 9:44, 46,(T WH omit; Tr brackets these two verses),48.
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σκώληξ , -ηκος , ὁ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H8438 and cogn. forms;]
a worm: of the kind which preys upon dead bodies, metaph., of fut. punishment, Mark 9:48 (LXX, Isaiah 66:24; cf. Sirach 7:17, Judith 16:17).†
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first met with in the Middle Comedy (Rutherford NP p. 475) = ";feel strong and hearty"; : cf. the cognate Lat. strenuus, Engl. ";stern."; According to Hesychius στρηνιῶντες = πεπλεγμένοι. δηλοῖ δὲ καὶ τὸ διὰ πλοῦτον ὑβρίζειν, καὶ βαρέως φέρειν. It is in this bad sense ";wax wanton"; through wealth etc. that the verb is used in Revelation 18:7; Revelation 18:9 : cf. P Meyer 20.23 (1st half iii/A.D.) μ ̣ὴ στρηνιάτω Λουκιᾶς, ἀλλὰ ἐργαζέσθω. The compd καταστρηνιάω in 1 Timothy 5:11 is rendered by Souter ";exercise my youthful vigour against"; : for similar κατα -compds see Blass-Debrunner Gr. § 181.
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