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Strong's #4508 - ῥυπαρός
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- to be dirty, grow filthy
- metaph. to be defiled with iniquity
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ῥῠπᾰρός, ά, όν,
filthy, dirty, κόλυθρον Telecl. 3; δάπιδες Pherecr. 185; ῥ. εἴριον greasy, Hp. Fract. 21; γαστέρας Id. Prorrh. 2.23 (s.v.l.); unpurged, σῶμα Alex.Trall. Febr. 7 .
2. metaph., sordid, mean, ἤδη χορηγὸν πώποτε -ώτερον τοῦδ' εἶδες; Eup. 306; uncultured, ῥ. τρόποι Philetaer. 18; βίος δουλοπρεπὴς καὶ ῥ . Arist. VV 1251b13; ῥ. πολῖται, ὄχλος, D.H. 7.8, 9.44; of style, Longin. 43.5. Adv. -ρῶς Men. 142, Epicur. Sent.Vat. 43, Arr. Epict. 2.9.4, AP 10.48 ( Pall. ): Sup. -ώτατα D.C. 59.4 .
3. of coins, made of base metal, gold or silver alloy, ἀργυρίου ῥυπαρὰς δραχμάς BGU 214.12 (ii A.D.), cf. Ostr.Bodl. ii 32 (ii A.D.), al.
4. κροτὼν ῥ ., prob. = ἀδειγμάτιστος, PCair.Zen. 670.6 (iii B.C.); σῖτος ῥ . unwinnowed, PFay. 16.10 (i B.C.); κριθὴ ῥ . POxy. 1542.7 (iv A.D.) .
ῤυπαρός, ῤυπαρᾷ, ῥυπαρον (ῤύπος, which see), filthy, dirty: properly, of clothing (A. V. vile), James 2:2 (the Sept. Zechariah 3:3f; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 11, 3; Plutarch, Phocylides, 18; Dio Cassius, 65, 20; ῤυπαρᾷ καί ἀπλυτα, Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 2, 3 at the end; χλαμύς, Aelian v. h. 14, 10); metaphorically, defiled with iniquity, base (A. V. filthy): Revelation 22:11 G L T Tr WH. ((In the sense of sordid, mean, Dionysius Halicarnassus, others.))
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ῥυπαρός , -ά , -όν
(< ῥύπος ),
[in LXX: Zechariah 3:4-5, (3-4) (H6674)*;]
filthy, dirty: of old, shabby clothing (Za, l.c.), James 2:2; metaph., of moral defilement, Revelation 22:11.†
* ῥυπαίνω
(< ῥύπος ),
in Arist., Xen., and later writers, to make filthy, defile: pass., in ethical sense (on the tense, v. Swete, in l), Revelation 22:11 LT, Tr., WH, txt.
*† ῥυπαρεύομαι
= ῥυπαίνομαι , q.v.: Revelation 22:11, WH, mg. (nowhere else).†
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";strong drink,"; an indeclinable transcript from Aramaic שִׁכְרָא, found in the NT only in Luke 1:15, but frequent in the LXX (Thackeray Gr. i. p. 33). In P Tebt II. 413.11 (ii/iii A.D.) for σικιωτεν Crönert suggests σικερώτιον, ";a jar for drinking σίκερα "; : see the editors’ note, also s.v. σκιά.
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