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the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33

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Old & New Testament Greek Lexical DictionaryGreek Lexicon

Strong's #3013 - λεπίς

Transliteration

lepís

Phonetics

lep-is'

Origin

from lepo (to peel)

Parts of Speech

feminine noun

TDNT

4:232,529

Definition

Thayer
Strong
Mounce

Thayer's

a scale

Hebrew Equivalent Words:

Strong #: 6341 ‑ פַּח (pakh); 7193 ‑ קַשְׂקֶשֶׂת (kas‑keh'‑seth);

Frequency Lists

Book
Word
Parsing

Verse Results

ASV (1)

Acts 1

BSB (1)

Acts 1

CSB (1)

Acts 1

ESV (1)

Acts 1

KJV (1)

Acts 1

LEB (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (1)

Acts 1

N95 (1)

Acts 1

NAS (1)

Acts 1

NLT (1)

Acts 1

WEB (1)

Acts 1

YLT (1)

Acts 1

ASV (1)

as it were scales 1

BSB (1)

scales 1

CSB (1)

scales 1

ESV (1)

scales 1

KJV (1)

scales 1

LEB (0)

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

LSB (1)

scales 1

N95 (1)

scales 1

NAS (1)

scales 1

NLT (1)

scales 1

WEB (1)

something like scales 1

YLT (1)

it were scales 1

RAH

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

SWE

N-NPF 1

ANT

N-NPF 1

BEZ

N-NPF 1

BGB

N-NPF 1

BMT

N-NPF 1

BYZ

N-NPF 1

ELZ

N-NPF 1

NA26

N-NPF 1

SBL

N-NPF 1

SCV

N-NPF 1

STV

N-NPF 1

TIS

N-NPF 1

TRG

N-NPF 1

The
did not use
this Strong's Number

Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions

λεπ-ίς,

ίδος, ἡ, (λέπω)

1. epithelial debris, Hp. Aph. 4.81; layer of the skull, PMed. in Arch.Pap. 4.270; ᾠοῦ λ. egg- shell, Sch. Ar. Pax 198; cup of a filbert, AP 6.22 (Zonas), 102 (Phil.); coat of an onion, Sch. Luc. Hist.Conscr. 26.

2. collectively, scales of fish, λεπίδος σιδηρέης ὄψιν ἰχθυοειδέος Hdt. 7.61; ὃ ἐν ὄρνιθι πτερόν, τοῦτο ἐν ἰχθύϊ ἐστὶ λ. Arist. HA 486b21; opp. φολίς, ib. 490b23, 517b5; also of serpents, v.l. in Nic. Th. 154, cf. Emp. 82.

3. of other things, λ. χαλκοῦ flakes that fly from copper in hammering, Dsc. 5.78, 79: abs., λεπίς Hp. Mul. 1.63.

4. plate of metal, Ph. Bel. 69.50, Hero Aut. 12.2, D.S. 20.91, Plu. Phoc. 18; collectively, λ. σιδηρᾶ BGU 544.8 (ii A.D.); of gold and silver, Plb. 10.27.10; λ. ἀργυρᾶ PMag.Par. 1.258.

5. λ. πρίονος blade of a saw, Heliod. ap. Orib. 47.14.5.

6. λεπίδες (sc. χιόνος) snow- flakes, cj. in Thphr. HP 4.14.13, CP 5.12.11.

Thayer's Expanded Definition

λεπίς, λεπιδος, ἡ (λέπω to strip off the rind or husk, to peel, to scale), a scale: Acts 9:18. (the Sept.; Aristotle, others (cf. Herodotus 7, 61).)

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament

λεπίς , -ίδος , ἡ

(< λέπω , to peel),

[in LXX chiefly for H7193;]

a scale: Acts 9:18†

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.

Vocabulary of the Greek NT

This subst., which in the NT is confined to Acts 9:18, occurs in Michel 833.11 (B.C. 279) θυμιατήριον ὑπόχαλκον, λεπίδα ἀργυρᾶν ἔχον : cf. BGU II. 544.8 (time of Antoninus). For the verb λέπω, see P Par 12.15 (B.C. 157) σπασάμενος λέπει με τῇ μαχαίρᾳ εἰς τὸ σκέλος, and for λεπίζω (Tobit 3:17; Tobit 11:18, al.) see P Leid Xxiii. 37 (iii/A.D.) λαβὼν ἄνχουσαν (l. ἄγχουσαν), λεοντικὴν λέπισον, καὶ λαβὼν τὰ λεπίσματα (Genesis 30:37) εἰς θυιαν τρίβε.

List of Word Forms

λεπίδας λεπιδες λεπίδες λεπίσιν λεπίσματα lepides lepídes