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Strong's #4620 - σιτόμετρον
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- a measured 'portion of' grain or 'food'
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σιτομετρον
From G4621 and G3358
σιτομέτριον, σιτομετριου, τό (Attic writers said τόν σῖτον μέτρειν; out of which later writers formed the compound σιτομέτρειν, Genesis 47:12,(14); Polybius 4, 63, 10; Diodorus 19, 50; Josephus, contra Apion 1, 14, 7; σιτομετρία, Diodorus 2, 41; (cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 383; Winer's Grammar, 25)), "a measured 'portion of' grain or 'food'": Luke 12:42. (Ecclesiastical and Byzantine writings.)
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*† σιτομέτριον , -ου , τό
(< σιτομετρέω , Genesis 47:12; Genesis 47:14 *, = Attic τὸν σῖτον μετρέω ),
a measured portion of food: Luke 12:42 (for exx. in Papyri, v. Deiss., BS, 158; LAE, 103.1).†
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This proper name, as in Romans 16:9, is found in P Revill. Mél. p. 295.14 (B.C. 131–0) (= Witkowski.2, p. 97) Πέλοπα καὶ Στάχυν καὶ Σεναθῦριν. See also Magn 119.25.
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