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Headword:
Akris
Adler number: alpha,985
Translated headword: locust, cricket, grasshopper
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A kind of little animal.[1]
The Precursor[2] ate 'locusts and wild honey',[3] which, being collected from the trees, is called manna[4] by the multitude.
Greek Original:Akris: eidos zôüphiou. êsthie de akridas ho Prodromos kai meli agrion, hoper apo tôn dendrôn episunagomenon manna tois pollois prosagoreuetai.
Notes:
[1] LSJ entry at web address 1.
[2] John the Baptist. For 'Precursor' cf.
pi 2372.
[3]
Mark 1:6.
[4] For manna cf.
mu 129,
mu 130.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; botany; Christianity; definition; food; religion; zoology
Translated by: Oliver Phillips â on 8 July 2000@15:38:46.
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