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Strong's #5115 - τόξον
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τόξον, τό,
bow, Il. 4.124, etc.: freq. in pl. τόξα for sg., τόξ' ὤμοισιν ἔχων ἀμφηρεφέα τε φαρέτρην 1.45, al., cf. Pi. P. 3.101, S. Ph. 654; sts. in Prose, Heraclit. 51, Hdt. 2.106, PEleph. 5.8 (iii B. C.); ἐτιταίνετο.. τόξα drew the bow, Il. 5.97; also τόξον τιταίνει B. 9.43; τόξον ἕλκετ' (v.l. εἷλκεν) Il. 11.582; τόξου πῆχυν ἀνέλκειν 13.583; τόξον τείνειν, ἐντείνειν, A. Ag. 364 (anap.), Fr. 83; τ... ἐντανύσαι Od. 21.245, cf. Hdt. 2.173; κυκλοτερὲς μέγα τ. ἔτεινε Il. 4.124, cf. E. Ba. 1066; τόξου ῥῦμα (i.e. the Persians, the bow being an oriental weapon), opp. λόγχης ἰσχύς (i.e. the Greeks), A. Pers. 147 (anap.).
2. τόξῳ by guess, Id. Ch. 1033.
3. bowmanship, archery, τόξων ἐῢ εἰδώς Il. 2.718, al.; τόξοισιν πίσυνος 5.205, cf. 13.716; ἡ τέχνη τῶν τ. Hdt. 1.73; πρὸς τόξου κρίσιν S. Tr. 266; τόξῳ (sc. νικῶν) SIG 1061.10 (Samos, ii B. C.).
II in pl. also, bow and arrows, τόξα πεπτεῶτ' ἄλλυδις ἄλλα Il. 21.502, cf. Hdt. 3.78, S. Ph. 68, al.; sts. in pl. for the arrows only, ib. 652, Pl. Lg. 815a.
III metaph., τόξα ἡλίου its rays, E. HF 1090; ἀμπελίνοις τόξοις δαμέντες, of the effects of wine, Pi. Fr. 218; τόξον μερίμνης Trag.Adesp. 354; κότταβος.. ὃν σκοπὸν ἐς λατάγων τόξα καθιστάμεθα for shooting of liquor from the cup, Critias 2.2. rainbow, Aeschrio 4, LXX Genesis 9:13, Hsch. s.v. εἴρη.
2. arch, AP 9.694.
3. curved support, cradle used in amputations, Archig. ap. Orib. 47.13.6; part of a carriage or cart, PPetr. 2p.133, 3p.144 (iii B. C.).
τέμνω
(B), only in τέμνοντα· ἀμέλγοντα, Hsch.; ἔτεμεν· ἤμελγεν, Id. (Perh. cf. Skt. â-câmati, pl. -camanti, 'sip', Icel. hvóma 'swallow'.)
τόξον, τόξου, τό, from Homer down, the Sept. often for קֶשֶׁת, a bow: Revelation 6:2.
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τόξον , -ου , τό ,
[in LXX chiefly for H7198;]
a bow: Revelation 6:2.†
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";a hymn"; : OGIS 56.69 (B.C. 238) οὓς ἂν ὕμνους οἱ ἱερογραμματεῖς γράψαντες δῶσιν τῶι ὠιδοδιδασκάλωι, P Giss I, 99.8 (ii/iii A.D.) ὕμνοι μὲν ἄι [δονται ] γλώτ ̣τῃ ξενικῇ, and P Oxy I. 130.21 (vi/A.D.) ὕμνους ἀθανάτους ἀναπέμψω τῷ δεσπότῃ Χριστῷ.
For the compound ὑμνῳδός, ";singer of hymns,"; cf. Perg 523.10 ὑμνῳδ ]οῦ θεοῦ Αἰγούστου, and ib. 374.4 ὑμνῳδοὶ θεοῦ Σεβαστοῦ καὶ θεᾶς Ῥώμης with Fränkel’s commentary ad l. on the functions of the ὑμνῳδός. See also Deissmann LAE2, P. 349.
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