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Strong's #160 - αἰφνίδιος
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- unexpected, sudden, unforeseen
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αἰφνίδιος, ον,
unforeseen, sudden, A. Pr. 680, Th. 2.61, Arist. EN 1117a18; ἀφικνοῦνται αἰφνίδιοι τοῖς Χίοις Th. 8.14. Adv. -ίως Id. 2.53; also -ιον Plu. Numbers 15:1-41. αἰφνιδιοτυχής, ές, profiting by strokes of good fortune, Vett. Val. 18.16.
αἰφνίδιος, (αἰφνης, ἀφανής, ἄφνω, which see), unexpected, sudden, unforeseen: Luke 21:34 (here WH ἐφνιδ., see their Introductory § 404 and Appendix, p. 151); 1 Thessalonians 5:8. (Wis. 17:14; 2 Macc. 14:17; 3Macc. 3:24; Aeschylus, Thucydides 2, 61 τό αἰφνίδιον καί ἀπροσδόκητον, Polybius, Josephus, Plutarch, Dionysius Halicarnassus, others.)
STRONGS NT 160: ἐφνιδιος [ἐφνιδιος, see αἰφνίδιος.]
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** αἰφνίδιος
(in Lk, l.c., ἐφν - WH; v. M, Pr., 35), -ον
(<αἴφνης = ἄφνως , suddenly),
[in LXX: Wisdom of Solomon 17:15, 2 Maccabees 14:17, 3 Maccabees 3:24*;]
sudden unexpected: Luke 21:34, 1 Thessalonians 5:3.†
ἐφνίδιος , see αἰφνίδιος .
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The adverb occurs in P Fay 123.21 ff. (c. A.D. 100), an uneducated letter—αἰφνιδί [.]ως (with a letter erased) εἴρηχεν ἡμῖν σήμερον : cf. Syll 324.20 (i/B.C.) αἰφνίδιον σ (υ)μφορὰν θεασάμενος, also ib. 326.7 αἰφνιδίως ἐπιβαλόντος and OGIS 339.18 (ii/B.C.) ἐκ τῆς αἰφνιδίου περιστάσεως.
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