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Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

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1: θῆλυς

(Strong's #2338 — Adjective — thelus — thay'-loos )

an adjective (from thele, "a breast"), is used in the form thelu (grammatically neuter) as a noun, "female," in Matthew 19:4; Mark 10:6; Galatians 3:28; in the feminine form theleia, in Romans 1:26 , "women;" Romans 1:27 "woman." See WOMAN.

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Vines, W. E., M. A. Entry for 'Female'. Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ved/​f/female.html. 1940.
 
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