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Strong's #3747 - ὀστέον
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ὀστέον, τό,
Att. contr. ὀστοῦν, poet. ὀστεῦν AP 7.480 (Leon.); Aeol. perh. ὄστιον Alc. Oxy. 2081(d)Fr. 5: pl. ὀστέα, Att. contr. ὀστᾶ, late ὀστά [ᾰ ] Opp. C. 1.268, Epigr.in D.L. 1.63, Epigr.Gr. 517.7 (Edessa); Dor. ὀστία Theoc. 2.61; but Trag. and Com. use gen. pl. ὀστέων, A. Fr. 367 (codd. Poll.), S. Tr. 769, Ar. Ach. 1226, and it is so written in E. Tr. 1177 where metre requires ὀστῶν: and the un contr. forms generally occur in later Prose, as in Arist. (v. infr.); nom. ὀστέον PLit.Lond. 167.17 (ii/iii A. D.); dat. pl. ὀστέοις Diog.Oen. 39; gen. pl. ὀστεόφιν (v. infr.): —
I bone, freq. in Hom. (Il. 4.460, al.) and Hp. (VC 1, al.); Hes. only in pl., Th. 540, al.; λεύκ' ὀστέα the bleached bones of the dead, Od. 1.161, etc.; σάρκας τε καὶ ὀστέα 9.293; πολὺς δ' ἀμφ' ὀστεόφιν θίς a huge heap of bones around, 12.45; ῥινὸν ἀπ' ὀστεόφιν ἐρύσαι 14.134; γυμνοῦσι τὰ ὀστέα τῶν κρεῶν Hdt. 4.61; ὀστέων στέγαστρον, of the skin, A. Fr. 367; ἀρχὴ τῶν ὀστῶν ἡ καλουμένη ῥάχις Arist. PA 54b11; esp. of the cranium, Hp. VC 2, al., cf. Il. 12.185.
II metaph., γῆς ὀστέοισιν ἐγχριμφθεὶς πόδα, i.e. rocks, Choeril.Trag. 2 (ὀστοῖσιν Nauck).
III stone of fruit, ὀστῶν περσεΐνων PCair.Zen. 176.168 (iii B. C.), cf. Dsc. Eup. 1.66, Gp. 10.13.3, al., Sch. Nic. Al. 99. [Accent ὀστέον Hdn.Gr. 2.943, but ὄστεον Anon. ap. Sch. Il. 24.793.] (Cf. Skt. ´sthi, gen. asthn´s 'bone', etc.)
ὀστοῦν, τό, Att. contr. for ὀστέον (q.v.).
ὀστέον, contracted ὀστοῦν, genitive ὀστέου, τό (akin to Latinos,ossis; Curtius, § 213, cf., p. 41), a bone: John 19:36; plural ὀστέα, Luke 24:39; genitive ὀστέων (on these uncontracted forms cf. (WHs Appendix, p. 157); Winers Grammar, § 8, 2 d.; (Buttmann, p. 13 (12))), Matthew 23:27; Ephesians 5:30 (R G Tr marginal reading brackets); Hebrews 11:22. (From Homer down; the Sept. very often for עֶצֶם.)
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ὀστέον
(Att.. contr. ὀστοῦν , -οῦ , and so Jo, l.c.), -ου , τό ,
[in LXX chiefly for H6106;]
a bone: contr., ὀστοῦν (v. supr.), John 19:36 (LXX); uncontr. (as in Hom., Hdt.), ὀστέα , Luke 24:39; ὀστέων , Matthew 23:27, Hebrews 11:22.†
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