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Headword:
*qa/mnos
Adler number: theta,39
Translated headword: bush
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] root. [So called] from its position [
qe/sis] in the ground. But
Homer says [that it means] the proliferating parts of leaves. "As he lay beneath a leafy bush".[1]
Josephus [uses it] in the masculine: "at which [mountain, i.e. Mount
Sinai], as we have before related, the vision of the bush, and the other wonderful appearances, had happened".[2]
*qa/mnos: h( r(i/za. a)po\ th=s e)n th=| gh=| qe/sews. *(/omhros de\ ta\ poluplhqh= fhsi tw=n fu/llwn. qa/mnw| u(p' a)mfiko/mw| katakei/menos. a)rsenikw=s *)iw/shpos: e)n w(=| kai\ ta\ peri\ to\n qa/mnon kai\ ta\ a)/lla fanta/smata suntuxei=n proeirh/kamen.
Notes:
The headword is similarly glossed in the
Etymologicum Gudianum; cf. more broadly e.g.
Hesychius theta85, theta87, theta88;
Photius,
Lexicon theta19 Theodoridis and other references there.
cf.
theta 40.
[1]
Homer,
Iliad 17.677 (web address 1).
[2]
Josephus,
Antiquities of the Jews 3.62 (web address 2); referring to
Moses.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; historiography; religion
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 5 October 2007@18:44:16.
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