The headword, a diminutive of o)/peas, is uncommon, and the entry is perhaps generated by its use in the Pentateuch: Exodus 21.6 (dative; quoted by Philo Judaeus), Deuteronomy 15.17.
[1] The term translated here as 'awl', soupli/on, is attested only here in this spelling; it is more commonly soubli/on (e.g. eta 432, and cf. omicron 6).
[2] An etymological definition, connecting the headword o)ph/tion to the word for 'hole' (o)ph/). For this etymology see also Orion [Author, Myth] 118, Etymologicum Magnum 627.43.