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Headword: *sabe/k
Adler number: sigma,8
Translated headword: sabek
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] release. From the Syriac [sc. tongue].[1]
Greek Original:
*sabe/k: a)/fesis. a)po\ th=s *su/ras.
Notes:
Likewise in the Synagoge (sigma 1) and Photius, Lexicon sigma5 Theodoridis.
The headword occurs in Genesis 22:13 LXX, the ram (eventually sacrificed by Abraham in place of his son Isaac) caught by its horns in a shrub: katexo/menos e)n futw=| sabek tw=n kera/twn. Ancient and modern commentators alike have struggled to understand the word, with some taking it to be the name of the shrub; alternatively, it is construed as some sort of adverbial expansion of katexo/menos.
[1] One manuscript actually adds glw/tths.
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; religion; zoology
Translated by: Alex Gottesman on 16 November 2002@20:26:14.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 17 November 2002@05:02:08.
David Whitehead (expanded primary note) on 3 May 2011@08:01:28.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; expanded note) on 19 June 2011@07:13:34.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords) on 19 December 2013@03:58:06.
David Whitehead (tweaked notes; another keyword) on 7 April 2014@06:03:20.
David Whitehead (note cosmetics) on 22 September 2014@13:05:06.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 23 September 2014@00:57:16.
David Whitehead (coding) on 25 May 2016@08:50:28.
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