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Strong's #612 - ἀπόκρισις
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ἄπο-κρῐσις, εως, ἡ,
I
1. separation, Anaxag. 4; κάθαρσις ἀ. χειρόνων ἀπὸ βελτιόνων Pl. Def. 415d.
2. Medic., excretion or secretion, γονῆς Hp. Genit. 2, σιτίων Vict. 4.93, cf. Arist. HA 582a4, Pr. 878a23, etc.; ἀ.σπερματική, περιττωματική, PA 681b35; σπέρματος Epicur. Nat.Herc. 908.3.
3. ἀ. νοσηρή exhalation, miasma, Hp. Nat.Hom. 9.
II (from Med.)
1. decision, answer, first in Thgn. 1167, cf. Hdt. 1.49, 5.50 codd. (ὑπόκρισις edd.), Hp. Decent. 3, Steril. 213, E. Fr. 977; ἀ. πρὸς τὸ ἐρώτημα Th. 3.60, cf. X. Hier. 1.35.
2. defence, Antipho 5.65.
3. rescript, Procop. Pers. 2.23; = responsum, Gloss.
4. embassy, commission, Chor. in RPhil. 1.79.
III a kind of dance, Hsch.
ἀπόκρισις, ἀποκρισεως, ἡ (ἀποκρίνομαι, see ἀποκρίνω), a replying, an answer: Luke 2:47; Luke 20:26; John 1:22; John 19:9. (From (Theognis, 1167, Bekker edition, 345, Welck. edition, and) Herodotus down.)
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ἀπό -κρισις , -εως , ἡ
(< ἀποκρίνομαι ),
[in LXX for H1697, etc.;]
an answering, an answer: Luke 2:47; Luke 20:26, John 1:22; John 19:9.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Syll 276.28 (Lampsacus, c. B.C. 195) . . . ὅταν παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ λ ]άβωσιν ἀποκρίσεις τὰς ἁρμοζούσας τ [ . . ., ib. 177.62 (Teos, B.C. 303) οἰόμεθα δὲ [δεῖν ἀποδειχθῆ ]ναι τρεῖς ἄνδρας εὐθὺς ὅταν [ἡ ] ἀπόκ [ρι ]σις ἀναγνωσθῆι, ib. 314.15 (ii/B.C., Messenian dialect) ἔδοξε τοῖς συνέδροις ἀπόκρισιν δόμεν διότι κτλ., ib. 928.21 (Magnesia, ii/B.C. init.) τὴν Μυλασέων ἀπόκρισιν to the praetor M. Aemilius. From the papyri we can only cite P Oxy VI. 941.9 (vi/A.D.), and other late exx. : like the verb, this word for ";answer"; clearly suffered eclipse, and returned into the language at a late period.
[Supplemental from 1930 edition]
For ἀποκρίτως, see P Oxy XII. 1467.22 (A.D. 263), with note.
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