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Strong's #3595 - ὁδηγός
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- a leader of the way, a guide
- a teacher of the ignorant and inexperienced
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ὁδηγ-ός, ὁ,
guide, Plb. 5.5.15, Plu. Alex. 27; of a goddess, Paus. 2.11.2; part of a dirigible χελώνη, Ath.Mech. 34.6; ταῖς Ἀριστοτελείοις τέχναις ὁδηγοῖς χρησάμενος D.H. Amm. 1.12, cf. Phld. Lib. p.20 O.: as Adj., ὁδηγὰ πλοῖα pilot -boats, Sammelb. 7173.16 (ii A. D.).
ὁδηγός, ὁδηγοῦ, ὁ (ὁδός and ἡγέομαιt; cf. χορηγός), a leader of the way, a guide;
a. properly: Acts 1:16 (Polybius 5, 5, 15; Plutarch, Alex. 27; 1 Macc. 4:2; 2 Macc. 5:15).
b. in figurative and sententious discourse ὁδηγός τυφλῶν, i. e. like one who is literally so called, namely a teacher of the ignorant and unexperienced, Romans 2:19; plural, τυφλοί ... ὁδηγοί τυφλῶν, i. e. like blind guides in the literal sense, in that, while themselves destitute of a knowledge of the truth, they offer themselves to others as teachers, Matthew 15:14; Matthew 23:16, 24.
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**† ὁδηγός , -οῦ , ὁ
(<ὁδός , ἡγέομαι ),
[in LXX : Ezra 8:1, Wisdom of Solomon 7:15; Wisdom of Solomon 18:3, 1 Maccabees 4:2, 2 Maccabees 5:15*;]
a leader on the way, a guide: Acts 1:16. Fig., ὁ . τυφλῶν , Romans 2:19; pl., Matthew 15:14; Matthew 23:16; Matthew 23:24.†
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ὁπλίζομαι, ";arm myself"; is found in the NT only in 1 Peter 4:1 : for the construction cf. Soph. Electra 996 τοιοῦτον θράσος | αὐτή θ᾽ ὁπλίζει, where Jebb also cites Anthol. Pal. 5.93 ὥπλισμαι πρὸς Ἔρωτα περὶ στέρνοισι λογισμόν.
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