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61 κέντρον
κέντρον, ου, τό (κεντέω ‘prick, spur on’; Hom. et al.; BGU 544, 12; LXX; PsSol 16:4; JosAs 16:13; Philo; Jos., Bell. 2, 385, Ant. 7, 169; Ath. 13:1) gener. ‘sharp point’.① the sting of an animal (Aristot. et al.; Aelian, NA 16, 27 σκορπίου) Rv 9:10 (s. Ctesias: 688 Fgm. 45 p. 490, 1 Jac. [Indica 7], a strange beast of India τὸ πρόσωπον ἐοικὸς ἀνθρώπῳ … ὥσπερ λέων … horrible teeth … σκορπίος … τὸ κέντρον in its tail, whose sting is deadly). In imagery (Aesop, Fab. 276 P. [also H-H. 273 app.]=Babr. no. 185 Cr. κ. τῆς λύπης) of death 1 Cor 15:55f after Hos 13:14 (s. ESellin, RSeeberg Festschr. I 1929, 307–14, cp. Straub 35; the imagery is transcultural: a friend of a teacher named Theodoros records in an epitaph that he felt a κέντρον ἄπαυστον, ‘unceasing sting’ because of his death [Kaibel 534, 8=Peek, GVI 1479, 8, s. New Docs 4, 157 no. 64]).② a pointed stick that serves the same purpose as a whip, a goad (Hom. et al.; Pr 26:3), in a proverbial expr. (Pind., P. 2, 94 [173] [s. Ael. Aristid. 45 p. 70 D.]; Aeschyl., Ag. 1624, Prom. 323; Eur., Bacch. 795 [WNestle, Anklänge an Eur. in AG: Philol. 59, 1900, 46–57]; Fgm. Iamb. Adesp. 13 in AnthLG [D-B.] III 75: ἵππος ὄνῳ• ‘πρὸς κέντρα μὴ λακτιζέτω’ ‘a horse to an ass: “No kicking against the goads!”’ [The cj. λάκτιζέ πω proposed by Crusius—s. JEdmonds, ed., Greek Elegy and Iambus II, ’31, repr. ’79, p. 310 no. 64—is unnecessary]; ins fr. Asia Minor [JHS 8, 1887, 261]: λακτίζεις πρὸς κέντρα; AOtto, D. Sprichwörter d. Römer 1890, 331f) πρὸς κέντρα λακτίζειν kick against the goads of a balking animal, fig. of one who resists a divine call Ac 9:4 v.l.; 26:14 (on the pl. cp. Eur., loc. cit., the iambic fragment, the ins, and PGM 4, 2911 κέντροισι βιαίοις of the stings of passion; Herm. Wr. p. 482, 26 Sc.; Philo, Det. Pot. Ins. 46 πάθους κέντροις).—FSmend, Αγγελος I 1925, 34–45, esp. 41ff, but s. WKümmel, Rö 7 u. die Bekehrung des Paulus 1929, 155–57; HWindisch, ZNW 31, ’32, 10–14; further lit. in Haenchen ad loc.—B. 864. DELG s.v. κεντέω. M-M. TW. -
62 νύσσω
νύσσω 1 aor. ἔνυξα (Hom. et al.; Sir 22:19; PsSol 16:4; Philo, Leg. ad Gai. 42; Jos., Bell. 3, 335 δόρατι; 5, 64 κατὰ πλευρὰν ν.) prim. ‘prick’① to penetrate with a pointed instrument, ordinarily not a violent or deep piercing, prick, stab τινά τινι someone w. someth. καλάμῳ αὐτόν GPt 3:9 (cp. Diog. L. 2, 109 νυχθῆναι καλάμῳ [Eubulides dies after a sharp reed pierced him while he was swimming]; Hesychius Miles., Viri Ill. c. 5 JFlach [1880]; SibOr 8, 296). τί τινι someth. w. someth. λόγχῃ τὴν πλευράν J 19:34 (to ensure that Jesus was actually dead, with modification of the more intense wounding suggested by ἐκκεντέω [q.v.] in the citation of Zech 12:12 in a reading of uncertain origin; s. Field, Notes 108); cp. Mt 27:49 v.l. (Plut., Cleom. 37, 16: Panteus pricks Cleomenes in the ankle w. a dagger to determine whether he is dead).② to touch gently, nudge, poke to waken someone fr. sleep (Od. 14, 485; Plut., Mor. 7e; Diog. L. 6, 53; 3 Macc 5:14) νύξας τ. πλευρὰν τ. Πέτρου ἤγειρεν αὐτόν Ac 12:7 D. ὁ κύριος … νύσσει τὸν Παῦλον AcPl Ha 7, 28.—DELG. M-M. TW. -
63 μυτερός
1) pointed2) sharpΕλληνικά-Αγγλικά νέο λεξικό (Greek-English new dictionary) > μυτερός
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