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Strong's #2864 - κόμη
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κόμ-η, ἡ,
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1. hair of the head, Il. 22.406, etc.: less freq. in pl., κὰδ δὲ κάρητος οὔλας ἧκε κόμας Od. 6.231; κόμαι Χαρίτεσσιν ὁμοῖαι (i.e. κόμαις Χαρίτων) Il. 17.51; κόμην κείρειν, κείρεσθαι (v. κείρω) ; κόμην τρέφειν to let the hair grow long, Hdt. 1.82; κ. φορεῖν PGnom. 188 (ii A.D.); κόμη δι' αὔρας ἀκτένιστος ᾄσσεται S. OC 1261; καθεῖσαν εἰς ὤμους κόμας E. Ba. 695; κόμαι πρόσθετοι false hair, wig, X. Cyr. 1.3.2, etc.; δοῦλος ὢν κόμην ἔχεις; Ar. Av. 911; κόμης ἀνάπλεως unkempt, Plu. Cic. 30.
2. of the beard, Arr. Epict. 4.8.4.
3. gill or branchia of the cuttlefish, dub. in Arist. HA 550b18: pl., arms or suckers, Max.Tyr. 4.5.
II metaph., foliage of trees, Od. 23.195, Cratin. 296, etc.; δόνακος App. BC 4.28; of herbs, Dsc. 4.164.7, Gal. 6.268; of corn, ληΐου κ. Babr. 88.3; λειμώνων κόμαι IG 14.1389i i 11; esp. = τραγοπώγων, Thphr. HP 7.7.1, Dsc. 2.143.
III luminous tail of a comet, Arist. Mete. 343a1, 346a15.
κόμη, κόμης, ἡ (from Homer down), hair, head of hair: 1 Corinthians 11:15. (According to Schmidt (21, 2) it differs from θρίξ (the anatomical or physical term) by designating the hair as an ornament (the notion of length being only secondary and suggested). Cf. B. D. under the word
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κόμη , -ης , ἡ ,
[in LXX: Numbers 6:5, Ezekiel 44:20 (H6545), al.;]
the hair: 1 Corinthians 11:15.†
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With 1 Corinthians 11:15 we may compare Cagnat IV. 1019.8 κοματροφήσαν [τος ] τοῦ ὑοῦ μου Αὐρ. with the editor’s note—";comam pascere, ut deo postea consecraretur, crebrior religio fuit"; : see also Syll 420 n.2. For κ. = ";foliage,"; see P Petr III. 43(2) versoiv. 10 (B.C. 246) π [αρ ]αφρυγανίσαι τὸ χῶμα τ [ῆ ]ι μυρικίνηι κόμηι.
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