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Strong's #2915 - κριθή
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κρῑθ-ή, ἡ,
mostly in pl.,
I barleycorns, barley (cf. κρῖ), the meal being ἄλφιτα: πυρῶν ἢ κριθῶν Il. 11.69, cf. Od. 9.110, 19.112, Ar. Eq. 1101; κριθᾶν μέδιμμνον IG 42(1).40.7 (Epid.); τὰς οὐλοχύτας φέρε δεῦρο — τοῦτο δ' ἐστὶ τί; — κριθαί Strato Com. 1.35; οἶνος ἐκ κριθέων πεποιημένος a kind of beer, Hdt. 2.77; ἐκ κριθῶν μέθυ A. Supp. 953, cf. Arist. Fr. 106; κριθαὶ πεφρυγμέναι, = κάχρυς, Th. 6.22, cf. Moer. p.213 P.: pl., also of species of barley, Thphr. HP 8.1.1: sg., PGrenf. 2.29.9 (ii B. C.); κ. Ἰνδική millet, Sorghum halepense, Thphr. HP 8.4.2.
II pustule on the eyelid, stye, Hp. Epid. 2.2.5, Gal. 12.742.
III barley-corn, the smallest weight, Thphr. Lap. 46. in sg., = πόσθη, Ar. Pax 965. (The connexion with Lat. hordeum, OHG. gersta is doubtful.)
κριθή, κριθῆς, ἡ (in Greek writings (from Homer down) only in plural αἱ κριθαί), the Sept. for שְׂעֹרָה, barley: Revelation 6:6 κριθῆς R G, κριθῶν L T Tr WH.
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κριθή , -ῆς , ἡ ,
[in LXX for H8184;]
barley: pl. (as usually in cl.), Revelation 6:6.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
For this common word, which in the NT is found only once and in the plur. (Revelation 6:6), it is sufficient to cite P Hib I. 47.22 (B.C. 256) καὶ ὄλυραν δὲ κ [αὶ κρ ]ιθὴν ἑτοίμαζε, ";prepare both olyra and barley,"; P Petr II. 23(I).2 (Ptol.) ἡ ζεὴ (= ζειὰ) ἡ δὲ κριθὴ ἐπλήγη, ";the rye and the barley had been smitten"; with hail (?) (Ed.), P Giss I. 69.7 (A.D. 118–9) νῦν δὲ πρὸς παράλημψιν κρειθῆς ἔπεμψα αὐτόν, P Oxy I. 69.6 (A.D. 190) κριθῆς ἀρτάβας δέκα.
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