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Strong's #5352 - φθινοπωρινός
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- autumn trees
- trees such as they are at the close of autumn, dry, leafless and without fruit
- metaph. of unfruitful, worthless men
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φθῐν-οπωρῐνός, ή, όν,
autumnal, Hp. Aph. 2.25, Plu. 2.735b, Gal. 6.443; ἰσημερία ἡ φ. Arist. HA 543b9, PHib. 1.27.170 (iii B. C., without ἡ), Plb. 4.37.2.
φθινοπωρινός, φθινοπωρινη, φθινοπωρινον, (φθινόπωρον, late autumn; from φθίνω to wane, waste away, and ὀπώρα autumn), autumnal (Polybius 4, 37, 2; Aristotle, h. a. 5, 11; (Strabo), Plutarch): δένδρα φθινοπωρινά autumn trees, i. e. trees such as they are at the close of autumn, dry, leafless and without fruit, hence, ἄκαρπα is added; used of unfruitful, worthless men, Jude 1:12 (cf. Lightfoot A Fresh Revision etc., p. 134f).
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* φθιν -οπωρινός , -ή , -όν
(< φθινόπωρον , late autumn),
autumnal: δένδρα φ ., autumn trees (said to be without fruit therefore at a time when fruit might be expected; v. Mayor's elaborate note, Ep. Ju., 55-59, and reff. there): Judges 1:12.†
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";plant"; : P Petr I. 29.4 (iii/B.C.) (= Witkowski.2, p. 30) πεφύτευται δὲ καὶ ἡ ἄμπελος πᾶσα, so 15, PSI IV. 433.6 (B.C. 261–0) οὐκ ἐφυτεύθη οὖν ἐπὶ τῆς πέτρας Ὀασιτικά, P Flor II. 148.12 (A.D. 266–7) τῶν φυτευομένων τόπων, and P Oxy XVI. 1911.104 (A.D. 557) ὑπὲρ (ἀρου.) β ̄ φυτευθ (εισῶν) ἐν ἀμπέλ (ῳ).
In his note on 1Co. 3:6 (Notes, p. 187 f.) Lightfoot refers to the application by the Fathers of ἐφύτευσα to the work of educating the catechumens as a significant ex. of ";a general fault of patristic exegesis, the endeavour to attach a technical sense to words in the NT which had not yet acquired this meaning.";
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