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Strong's #4721 - στέγη
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στέγ-η,
Dor. and Aeol. στέγα, ἡ, roof, A. Ag. 897, Hdt. 6.27, X. Mem. 3.8.9, Mark 2:4, etc.; παρέχειν τινὶ ς . give one shelter, Arist. Fr. 631; στέγῃ δέχεσθαί τινας OGI 665.25 (Egypt, i A.D. ).
2. ceiling, Alc. 15, Call. Iamb. 1.115 ( Hermes 69.169).
II roofed place, chamber, room, Hdt. 2.2, 148, 175, Eup. 347, X. Oec. 8.13, etc.; covered vestibule, IG 22.1046.13; ἕρκειος ς ., of a tent, S. Aj. 108; a hare's seat or form, Id. Fr. 174; ἐκ κατώρυχος ς ., of the grave, Id. Ant. 1100, cf. 888 .
2. storey of a house, PStrassb. 110.6 (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen. 766.4 (iii B.C.), etc.; ἡ ἀνωτάτη ς . Str. 15.3.7; αἱ στέγαι the upper storeys, PPetr. 2p.28 (iii B.C.), cf. SIG 344.16 (Teos, iv B.C. ), IG 42(1).102.293 (Epid., iv B.C. ), PLond. 3.1164f28 (iii A.D.) .
3. freq. in pl., house, dwelling, A. Ag. 3, 518, al.; κατὰ στέγας at home, S. OT 637, al.; ἐπελεῦσαι τῷ ἀνδρὶ ἐπὶ στέγαν to the man's house, Leg.Gort. 3.46, cf. Schwyzer 177.3 (Crete, v B.C. ).
III deck of a ship, in Lat. stega, Plaut. Bacch. 278, Stich. 413.
στέγη, στεγης, ἡ (στέγω to cover), from Aeschylus and Herodotus down, a roof: of a house, Mark 2:4; ἐισέρχεσθαι ὑπό τήν στέγην τίνος (see εἰσέρχομαι, 1, p. 187{b} bottom), Matthew 8:8; Luke 7:6.
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στέγη , -ης , ἡ (< στέγω ),
[in LXX: Genesis 8:13 (H4374), etc.;]
a roof: Mark 2:4; of entering a house, εἰσέρχεσθαι ὑπὸ τὴν σ ., Matthew 8:8, Luke 7:6 (cf. MM, xxiii).†
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For this verb ";reign together"; (1 Corinthians 4:8, 2 Timothy 2:12) cf. Polyb. xxx. 2. 4 κατὰ μὲν τὸ παρὸν συμβασιλεύει τ᾽ ἀδελφῷ. Mention is made of συμβασιλισταί, apparently members of a royal military union (cf. Preisigke Fachwörter s.v. βασιλισταί), in an inscr. addressed to Ptolemy III., published in Archiv v. p. 158.
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