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Headword: *sa/pfeira
Adler number: sigma,106
Translated headword: Sappheira, Sapphira
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A proper name.[1] Also [sc. attested in the masculine] sappheiros, [meaning] a kind of very valuable stone.[2]
Greek Original:
*sa/pfeira: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ *sa/pfeiros, ei)=dos li/qou poluti/mou.
Notes:
[1] That of, notably, the wife of Ananias in Acts 5. Members of the early church in Jerusalem, they both died after attempting to keep money they had made in a sale. Later Christian writers refer many times to the episode.
[2] Not, as one might have supposed, what is nowadays called sapphire (a blue corundum), but lapis lazuli: see LSJ s.v.
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; religion; science and technology; women
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 21 June 2001@21:46:10.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 22 June 2001@02:36:35.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; more keywords; tweaks) on 11 October 2010@09:08:57.
David Whitehead on 25 July 2011@10:46:18.
David Whitehead on 20 December 2013@06:26:53.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 4 October 2014@00:53:37.

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