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Headword:
Chosbias
Adler number: chi,417
Translated headword: Chosbia, Cozbi
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A proper name.[1]
He who was destroyed, along with Zimri, by the high-priest Phinehas.
Greek Original:Chosbias: onoma kurion. ho hupo tou archiereôs Phinees sundiaphthareis tôi Zambrê.
Notes:
See
phi 466, from
Josephus,
Jewish Antiquities 4.152-6 (web address 1); cf. also also
zeta 14. The Suda has made a mistake about gender: in
Josephus, Cozbi (introduced at 4.141) is a woman.
[1] Here in the genitive case.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 April 2003@06:36:01.
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