σειραὶ ζόφου

σειρά, [dialect] Ion. [full] σειρή, [dialect] Dor. [full] σηρά Choerob. in An.Ox.2.260, Et.Gud. 497.47: ἡ:—

A cord, rope,

σειράς τ' εὐπλέκτους Il.23.115

;

σειρὴν δὲ πλεκτήν Od.22.175

; σ. χρυσείη cord of gold, Il.8.19, cf. Pl.Tht. 153c: metaph.,

σειραῖς.. ἁμαρτιῶν σφίγγεται LXXPr.5.22

; σειραὶ ζόφου v.l. in 2 Ep.Pet.2.4: v. also σαύρα IV.

2 trace (cf. σειραφόρος), Poll.1.141.

3 cord or line with a noose, lasso, used by the Sagartians and Sarmatians, Hdt.7.85, Paus.1.21.5: hence the Parthians are called σειραφόροι, Suid.

4 a bandage, Gal.18(1).777; σ. μονομερής, διμερής, κτλ. Sor.Fasc.23,24, al.

5 ἡ σ. τοῦ βίρρου,= cimussatio (prob. edge, border), Dosith.p.435K.

II metaph. of an animal's tail, Nic.Th. 119, 385.

III σειραὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς locks of hair, LXX Jd.16.13;

σ. τριχῶν Poll.2.30

.

IV metaph., line, lineage, Tz.ad Lyc.481, Sch.Il.1.176.

V series, Dam.Pr.45,95.

VI pl., a disease of horses, Hippiatr.52.

VII the front part of the perineum, Aët.6.34.

ζόφος, ου, ὁ (Hom., Trag. et al.; Plut., Lucian; Epict., Fgm. p. 487, 2 Sch.; Sym., Philo; Ath., R. 19 p. 71, 30).

① darkness ranging from partial to total state, with suggestion of foreboding, darkness, gloom Hb 12:18.

② esp. darkness of the nether regions, gloom (Od. 20, 356), and these regions themselves (Il. 15, 191; 21, 56; Od. 11, 57) ὁ ζόφος τοῦ σκότους either black darkness or the darkest nether regions 2 Pt 2:17; Jd 13 (the juxtaposition of ζ. and σκότος as Ael. Aristid. 24, 44 K.=44 p. 838 D.; Lucian, Catapl. 2); σειραὶ ζόφου chains of hell 2 Pt 2:4. ὑπὸ ζόφον in (lit. ‘under’) darkness (cp. Aeschyl., Pers. 839; Eur., Hipp. 1416.—Quint. Smyrn. 2, 619 ὑπὸ ζ. of the underworld) Jd 6. S. ταρταρόω.—DELG. M-M. TW.