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Strong's #2790 - κιθαρῳδός
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- a harper, one who plays the harp and accompanies it with his voice
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κῐθᾰρῳδ-ός, ὁ,
(κιθάρα, ἀοιδός)
I one who plays and sings to the cithara, Hdt. 1.23, IG 12.547, Pherecr. 6.1, Phld. Mus. p.28K., etc.: as fem., κ. γυνή Alciphr. 3.33.
II a fish, found in the Red Sea, with body striped like the strings of a lyre, Ael. NA 11.23.
κιθαρῳδός, κιθαρωδου, ὁ (κιθάρα (which see), and ᾠδός, contracted from ἀοιδός, a singer), a harper, one who plays on the harp and accompanies it with his voice: Revelation 14:2; Revelation 18:22. ((Herodotus, Plato, others), Diphilus (
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* κιθαρ -ωδός , -οῦ , ὁ
(< κιθάρα , ἀοιδός , a singer),
one who plays and sings to the lyre, a harper: Revelation 14:2; Revelation 18:22.†
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With this word, as in Revelation 14:2; Revelation 18:22, cf. Priene II3.80 (i/B.C.), where a κιθαρῳδός is mentioned among the musi–cians hired to amuse the crowd : cf. also OGIS 51.41 (iii/B.C.), 352.67 (ii/B.C.).
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