driven about by any and every didactic breeze

ἄνεμος, ου, ὁ (Hom.+)

① a blowing atmospheric phenomenon, wind Rv 7:1; playing among the reeds Mt 11:7; Lk 7:24; scattering chaff B 11:7 (Ps 1:4); desired by the sailor IPol 2:3, or not ἐναντίος ἄ. a contrary wind Mt 14:24; Mk 6:48. ὁ ἄ. ἰσχυρό the storm Mt 14:30; cp. 32; Mk 4:39, 41; 6:51. ἄ. μέγας a strong wind J 6:18; Rv 6:13. ἄ. τυφωνικός a violent, hurricane-like wind Ac 27:14, cp. 15. For this, λαῖλαψ ἀνέμου a storm-wind Mk 4:37; Lk 8:23, cp. Mk 4:41; Lk 8:24 (on the stilling of the storm POxy 1383, 1 [III A.D.] κελεύειν ἀνέμοις.—WFiedler, Antik. Wetterzauber ’31, esp. 17–23).—Pl. without the art. (Jos., Bell. 4, 286) Js 3:4. οἱ ἄ. (Jos., Bell. 4, 299; also thought of as personified, cp. IDefixWünsch 4, 6 τὸν θεὸν τῶν ἀνέμων καὶ πνευμάτων Λαιλαμ) Mt 7:25, 27; 8:26f (the par. Mk 4:39 has the sg.); Lk 8:25; Jd 12. ἄ. ἐναντίοι contrary winds Ac 27:4. οἱ τέσσαρες ἄ. τῆς γῆς Rv 7:1 (cp. Zech 6:5; Jer 25:16; Da 7:2; En 18:2 τοὺς τέσσαρας ἀ. τὴν γῆν βαστάζοντας; on the angels of the winds cp. PGM 15, 14; 16, and on control of the winds Diod S 20, 101, 3 Aeolus as κύριος τῶν ἀνέμων; Ps.-Apollod., Epit. 7, 10 Zeus has appointed Aeolus as ἐπιμελητὴς τῶν ἀνέμων, καὶ παύειν καὶ προί̈εσθαι; Ael. Aristid. 45, 29 K.; IAndrosIsis, Kyme 39; POxy 1383, 9 ἀπέκλειε τὰ πνεύματα).

② οἱ τέσσαρες ἄνεμοι can also be the four directions, or cardinal points (Sb 6152, 20 [93 B.C.]; CPR 115, 6; PFlor 50, 104 ἐκ τῶν τεσς. ἀ.; Ezk 37:9 v.l.; Zech 2:10; 1 Ch 9:24; Jos., Bell. 6, 301, Ant. 8, 80; PGM 3, 496; 4, 1606f) Mt 24:31; Mk 13:27; D 10:5. ἀνέμων σταθμοί stations or quarters of the wind 1 Cl 20:10 (Job 28:25; s. Lghtf. and Knopf ad loc.).

③ a tendency or trend that causes one to move from a view or belief, wind fig. ext. of 1 (cp. 4 Macc 15:32), περιφερόμενοι παντὶ ἀ. τ. διδασκαλίας driven about by any and every didactic breeze Eph 4:14.—B. 64.—DELG. M-M. TW.