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Strong's #2952 - κυνάριον
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κῠν-άριον, τό,
Dim. of κύων,
little dog, puppy, Pl. Euthd. 298d, X. Cyr. 8.4.20, Theopomp.Com. 90, Alc.Com. 33, Matthew 15:26; small waxen image of a dog used in magic, PMag.Par. 1.2945: less correct than κυνίδιον acc. to Phryn. 157; but κυνάριον καὶ κυνίδιον δόκιμα Id. PS p.84 B.
κυνάριον, κυναριου, τό (diminutive of κύων, equivalent to κυνίδιον, which Phryn. prefers; see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 180; cf. γυναικάριον),a little dog: Matthew 15:26; Mark 7:27f (Xenophon, Plato, Theophrastus, Plutarch, others.)
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* κυνάριον , -ου , τό
(in Att.. also κυνίδιον , dim. of κύων ),
a little dog: Matthew 15:26-27 Mark 7:27-28 †
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This dim. of κύων, which occurs quater in the NT, is used atleast once by Epictetus—iv. 1. 111 εἶθ᾽ οὕτως. . πρόσελθε ἐπὶ κυνάριον, ἐπὶ ἱππάριον, ἐπὶ ἀγρίδιον, ";then proceed thus . . . to a dog, a horse, an estate"; (Sharp, p. 23). For the more classical κυνίδιον (Lob. Phryn. p.180) see M. Antoninus vii. 13 κυνιδίοις ὀστάριον ἐρριμένον, ";a bone thrown to lap-dogs.";
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