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Strong's #876 - ἀφρός
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ἀφρός, ὁ,
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1. foam, of the sea, ῥόος Ὠκεανοῖο ἀφρῷ μορύρων Il. 18.403, etc.; of a river, 5.599.
2. of persons and animals, foam, slaver, froth, περί τ' ἀ. ὀδόντας γίγνεται 20.168; ἀ. περὶ στόμα Hp. Aph. 2.43, cf..Luke 9:39; μέλαν' ἀπ' ἀνθρώπων ἀφρόν frothy blood, A. Eu. 183, cf. Fr. 372; θρομβώδεις ἀφροί S. Tr. 702; βακχίου παλαιγενοῦς ἀφρῷ, of wine, Antiph. 237; κύλικα.. ἀφρῷ ζέουσαν Theophil. 2.
II
1. ἀφρὸς νίτρου, = cross ἀφρόνιτρον, Hp. Mul. 1.75; ἀ. alone, Arist. Col. 794a20.
2. ἀ. αἵματος, = cross σπέρμα, Diog.Apoll.A 24 D.
III a kind of ἀφύη, Arist. HA 569a29, b28, Ath. 7.325b; Ionic, acc. to Archestr. Fr. 9.2, but cf. Hsch. s.v. cross ἀφύων τιμή. (ṃbhrós, cf. Skt. abhrám 'cloud', Lat. imber.)
ἀφρός, ἀφροῦ, ὁ, foam: Luke 9:39. (Homer, Iliad 20, 168; (others).)
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foam: Luke 9:39 (MM, s.v.).†
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The adj. ἀφριόεντι , as an epithet of the sea, occurs in a late hymn to Isis, Kaibel 1028.74. For the medical writers’ use of ἀφρός (Luke 9:38) see Hobart’s plentiful evidence, Med. Language of St Luke, p. 17 f. The word is MGr.
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