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Strong's #2769 - κεράτιον
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- a little horn
- the name of the fruit, Ceratonia silqua or carobtree (called also John's Bread [from the notion that its pods, which resemble those of the "locust", constituted the food of the Baptist]. This fruit was shaped like a horn and has a sweet taste; it was and is used not only for fattening swine, but as an article of food by the lower classes.
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κερᾱτ-ιον, τό, Dim. of κέρας,
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1. small horn, D.S. 3.73, Arist. ap. Plu. 2.977a.
2. of the antennae of the κάραβος, Arist. HA 526a7; of the hermit-crab, ib. 529a27.
3. in pl., curved ends of the womb (cf. κεραία 11.7), ib. 510b19.
4. musical instrument, perh. fife or clarionet, D.S. 29.32, prob. for κεραμείου in Plb. 26.1.4, cf. ib. 1a. 2.
II carat, 1 / 1728 of a pound, Dsc. ap. Gal. 19.775, Archig. ap. Aët. 6.37, Hero *Mens. 60.21, Just. Nou. 32.1; = Lat. siliqua, OGI 521.27 (Abydos, v/vi A.D.).
III = cross κερατωνία, Colum. Arbor. 25. v. cross κεράτια.
κεράτιον, κερατιου, τό (diminutive of κέρας);
1. a little horn.
2. the name of the fruit of the κερατέα or κερατεια (or κερατια), the Ceratonia sillqua (Linn.) or carob tree (called also St. John's Bread (from the notion that its pods, which resemble those of the 'locust', constituted the food of the Baptist)). This fruit is shaped like a horn and has a sweet taste; it was (and is) used not only in fattening swine, but as an article of food by the lower classes: Luke 15:16 (A. V. husks); cf. Winers RWB, under the word Johannisbrodbaum; (B. D. (especially American edition) under the word
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* κεράτιον , -ου , τό
(dimin. of κέρας ),
1. a little horn (Arist.).
2. In pl. (the fruit of the κερατέα ), carob-pods: Luke 15:16.†
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In P Lond 131*.7 (A.D. 78) (= I. p. 189) κεράτ (ια) is used of the fruit of the carob, as in Luke 15:16 : cf. P Leid Xxii. 35 (medical prescription—iii/iv AD.) (= p. 237) ἀκάνθης κεράτια. From v/A.D. onwards the word is used in Egypt, like the Latin siliqua, of a money measure, the ";carat"; : see e.g. P Oxy I. 154 verso (vii/A.D.) with the editor’s notes, and Chrest. I. i. p. lxvii.
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