the Fourth Week after Easter
Click to donate today!
Bible Lexicons
Old & New Testament Greek Lexical Dictionary Greek Lexicon
Strong's #1393 - Δορκάς
- Thayer
- Strong
- Mounce
Dorcas = "gazelle"
- the name of a woman Peter raised from the dead
- Book
- Word
- Parsing
Δορκάς, δορκάδος, ἡ (properly, a wild she-goat a gazelle, "παρά τό δέρκω, τό βλέπω. Ὀξυδερκες γάρ τό ζοων καί ἐυομματον Etym. Magn. (284, 6)), Dorcas, a certain Christian woman: Acts 9:36, 39; see Ταβιθά.
Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2006, 2011 by Biblesoft, Inc.
All rights rserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com
Δορκάς , -άδος , ἡ
(δορκάς , a gazelle),
Dorcas, also called Ταβειθά , q.v.: Acts 9:36; Acts 9:39.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
Δορκάς is found as a feminine name among both Greeks and Jews (see Knowling ad Acts 9:36 in EGT). An interesting example is afforded by a Delphic inscription of ii/B.C., Syll 854.11, .12, where a certain Alexon entrusts the care of a manumitted slave of this name to one Thracidas—τρεφ ]έτω Θραικίδας Δορκάδα, εἴ κα θέλῃ [ο ]ἰκεῖν ἐν τα [ὐ [τῶι · εἰ δὲ μή, ἐνβαλλέτω Θραικίδας Δορκάδι τροφὰν τοῦ μηνὸς ἑκάστου πυρῶν τέσσαρα ἡμίεκτα κτλ. See also Deissmann BS, p. 189, ZNTW i. p. 88. The diminutive, which is found in LXX Isaiah 13:14, occurs in a papyrus letter P Lond 413.14 (c. A.D. 346) (= II. p. 302), complaining of the gazelles which are spoiling the writer’s crops—ἐπιδὴ τὰ δορκάδι [α ] ἀφανίζουσειν τὸ (l. τὰ) σπόριμα.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
