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Strong's #850 - αὐχμηρός
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- squalid, dirty
- since dirty things are destitute of brightness: dark
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αὐχμηρός, ά, όν,
1. dry, without rain, χειμών Hp. Aph. 3.11, cf. Aër. 10; ἔτη Arist. HA 605b19; ἔαρ Id. Pr. 860a13; of places, dry, parched, τόποι Pl. Lg. 761b (Sup.), cf. 2 Peter 1:19; χωρία Thphr. HP 9.11.10, etc.; καρποί D.S. 2.53. parching, νόσοι Emp. 121.3.
2. dry, rough, squalid, οὖδας E. Alc. 947; σκληρὸς καὶ αὐ. Pl. Smp. 203d; esp. of hair (cf. foreg.), S. Fr. 475, E. Or. 387, Theoc. 25.225; βίος Luc. Salt. 1. Adv. -ρῶς, ἔχειν τοῦ προσώπου Philostr. VA 4.10.
3. miserable, Man. 2.169: c. gen., βιότοιο ib. 454: irreg. Sup. αὐχμότατος dub. l. in Pl.Com. 169.
αὐχμηρός, ἀυχμηρα, ἀυχμηρον (αὐχμέω to be squalid), squalid, dirty (Xenophon, Plato, and following), and since dirty things are destitute of brightness, dark: 2 Peter 1:19, Aristotle, de color. 3 τό λαμπρόν ἤ στιλβον ... ἤ τοὐναντίον ἀυχμηρον καί ἀλαμπες. (Hesychius, Suidas, Pollux).
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* αὐχμηρός , -ά , -όν
(< αὐχμός , drought);
1. dry.
2. squalid, dismal: 2 Peter 1:19 (MM, s.v.).†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
We can quote only verse parallels for this word of 2 Peter (cf. Apoc Petr 6). Kaibel 548, a pretty epitaph on a boy of 16 (Nemausus in Gaul—Nismes) begins after Latin dedication—
Ἄνθεα πολλὰ γένοιτο νεοδμήτῳ ἐπὶ τύμβῳ ,
μὴ βάτος αὐχμηρή , μὴ κακὸν αἰγίπυρον .
The epithet will imply ";dark,"; ";funereal"; colour.
The combination quoted by Grimm from Aristotle recurs in Kaibel 431.3 (Antioch, not before ii/A.D.)—
κεῖμαι ἐς [αὐ ]χμηροὺς καὶ ἀλαμπέας Ἀίδος εὐνάς .
[Supplemental from 1930 edition]
αὐχμηρός . Add Vett. Val. p. 2.4.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
