κῶλον

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Pre-Greek origin.[1]

Pronunciation

 

Noun

κῶλον (kôlon) n (genitive κώλου); second declension

  1. part of something, member
  2. part of the body: limb, leg, arm
  3. part of a building: side, front
  4. part of a sentence: clause
  5. (in plural) carcass, carcasses
    2nd century BC, Septuagint, I Samuel (called Βασιλειων Α in Septuagint) 17:46 (David speaking to Goliath)
    και αποκλείσει σε κύριος σήμερον εις την χείρα μου και αποκτενώ σε και αφελώ την κεφαλήν σου από σου και δώσω τα κῶλά σου και τα κῶλα παρεμβολής των αλλοφύλων εν ταύτη τη ημέρα τοις πετεινοίς του ουρανού και τοις θηρίοις της γης και γνώσεται πάσα η γη ότι εστί θεός εν Ισραήλ ("And the Lord shall deliver thee today into my hand and I shall kill thee and take thy head off thee and give thy carcass and the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines this day to the fowls of the heaven and to the beasts of the earth and all the earth shall know that there is a god is in Israel." The Hebrew has the singular פגר מחנה פלשתים instead of "thy carcass and the carcasses of the camp of the Philistines".)

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References

  1. Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill

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