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Headword:
Ho
ôn
Adler number: omicron,438
Translated headword: [he] who is
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] our god who exists always.
Greek Original:Ho ôn: ho aei ôn theos hêmôn.
Note:
The headword phrase is probably quoted from its best-known occurrence, in
Exodus 3.14
LXX (cf.
alpha 1186 and esp.
omega 105), but it also appears on the nimbus of Christ in icons, to indicate divinity. The glossing phrase is not precisely paralleled elsewhere.
Keywords: art history; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 November 2001@22:12:26.
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