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Strong's #1335 - διήγεσις
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- a narration, narrative
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διήγ-ησις, εως, ἡ,
narration, narrative, Pl. R. 392d, Phdr. 246a, Aristeas 1 etc.; in a speech, statement of the case, Arist. Rh. 1416b29, Zeno Stoic. 1.23.
διήγησις, διηγήσεως, ἡ (διηγέομαι), "a narration, narrative: Luke 1:1; used of the Gospel narratives also in Eusebius, h. e. 3, 24, 7; 3, 39, 12; cf. Grimm in the Jahrbb. f. deutsche Theol. 1871, p. 36. (Plato, Aristotle, Polybius; Sir. 6:35 (
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δι -ήγησις , -εως , ἡ
(< διηγέομαι ),
[in LXX: Judges 7:15 H4557 Habakkuk 2:6 H2420), freq. in (Sirach 6:35, al.), 2 Maccabees 2:32; 2 Maccabees 6:17;]
a narrative: Luke 1:1 (cf. Milligan, NTD, 130).†
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διήγησις is used ter in the letter of Aristeas to Polycrates (1, 8, 322) to describe the ";narrative"; he has to unfold—one thinks of the first and last lines of Sordello. The noun occurs twice in PSI I. 85 (iii/A.D.), from a rhetorical treatise, defining what was technically known as ἡ χρεία : see above s.v. ἀπομνημόνευμα. The χρεία is to be ";concise"; : —.8 Διὰ τί σύντομον; ὅτι πολλάκις ἐκταθὲν ἢ διήγησις γίνεται ἢ ἄλλο τι. Δ. therefore implies some fullness of narrative, which suits the use of the word in the Preface of Lk. MGr keeps the -μα noun—διήγημα ";narrative"; with dimin. διηγηματάκι.
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