Bible Lexicons

For this class, and vernacular word, which is used metaphorically in Revelation 18:14, cf. the i/A.D. letter of a tax-gatherer at Oxyrhynchus, P Oxy II. 298, where along with much other miscellaneous matter he informs a friend—.38 οὔπω πολλὴ ὐ (= ὀ)πώρα ἐγένετο ἐν Μέμφι ἐπὶ τοῦ παρόντ ̣[ο ]̓, ";there has not been much fruit in Memphis up to the present"; : also P Lond 46.220 (iv/A.D.) (= I. p. 72) ὅσα ἀκμάζει τῶν ὀπώρων. For the adj. see OGIS 234.2 (end of iii/B.C.) Πυλαίας ὀπωρινῆς, the autumn meeting of the Amphictyons at Pylae : cf. Judges 1:12 δένδρα φθινοπωρινὰ ἄκαρπα, ";autumn trees without fruit."; A form ὀπωριμεῖος (not in LS) should probably be read in P Lond 974i. 3 and ii. 5 (A.D. 305–306) (= III. p. 116 f.) (as amended Addenda, p. vii.). With ὀπωροφυλάκιον (Psa. 78꞉1 ([MT Psalms 79:1], al.) cf. the mention of an ὀπωροφύλαξ in P Oxy IV. 729.11 (A.D. 137), also the recto of P Ryl II. 244 (iii/A.D.). The etymology of ὀπώρα may reveal the meaning, ";the season that follows summer"; (cf. ὄπ -ιθεν) (Boisacq, p. 709).