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Strong's #5421 - φρέαρ
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- a well
- the pit of the abyss (because the nether world is thought to increase in size the further it extends from the surface of the earth and so resemble a cistern, the orifice of which is narrow)
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φρέ-αρ,
φρεῖαρ Nic. Th. 486, τό, gen. φρέᾱτος (v. sub fin.), contr. φρητός IGRom. 1.1167 C 6 (Egypt, i A. D.), Hdn.Gr.1.409; dat. φρέᾰτι h.Cer. 99 (s. v.l.), φρητί Call. Cer. 15; pl. φρέᾱτα, also φρῆτα PCair.Zen. 499.12 (iii B. C.); pl. φρείᾰτα (v. infr.): —
an artificial well (thus distd. from κρήνη, cf. Hdt. 4.120, D. 14.30; but φ. ἀσφάλτον naphtha- spring, LXX Genesis 14:10, cf. Hdt. 6.119), πᾶσαι κρῆναι καὶ φρείατα μακρὰ νάουσιν Il. 21.197; the stem φρεατ - first in h.Cer. l.c.
2. later, tank, cistern, reservoir, Hdt. 1.68, Th. 2.48, 49, PHal. 1.98 (iii B. C.), etc.; εἰς φ. καταβαίνειν καὶ κολυμβᾶν Pl. La. 193c, cf. Prt. 350a; φ. ὀρώρυκται S.E. M. 8.129; ποιητὰ φ., v. ποιητός 1: generally, pit, φ. διαφθορᾶς LXX Psalms 55:23 (54). 24. perh. oil-jar, Ar. Pl. 810.
3. metaph., εἰς φρέατά τε καὶ πᾶσαν ἀπορίαν ἐμπίπτων Pl. Tht. 174c; ἐν φρέατι συσχόμενος ib. 165b; ἡ περὶ τὸ φ. ὄρχησις, prov. of persons 'on the brink of a volcano', Plu. 2.68b; λύκος περὶ φ. χορεύει prov. ap. Hsch., Phot.; πίνειν ἐξ ἀργυροῦ φρέατος, i.e. a large wine-cup, Ath. 5.192a, cf. Chamaeleon ap.eund. 11.461c. [ Att. gen. φρέᾱτος Ar. Ec. 1004, Fr. 295, Stratt. 57 (troch.), Alex. 179, Apollod.Gel. 1.] (Orig. frhvṛ, gen. frhvṇ τος, cf. Arm. albiur 'well', Goth. and O E. brunna 'stream, burn', Lat. ferveo, defrutum.)
φρέαρ, φρεαρατος, τό, from the Homer hymn Cer. 99 and Herodotus 6, 119 down; the Sept. for בְּאֵר and (in 1 Samuel 19:22; 2 Samuel 3:26; Jeremiah 48:7, 9
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φρέαρ , -ατος , τό ,
[in LXX chiefly for H875;]
a well: Luke 14:5, ; φ . τῆς ἀβύσσου , Revelation 9:1-2.†
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For χολή, ";gall,"; ";bile,"; as in Mat. 27:34, cf. PSI III. 211.4 (v/A.D.) τὸν τῆς [[σ ]]χολῆς νοσήσαντα. See also Ev. Petr. 5 ποτίσατε αὐτὸν χολὴν μετὰ ὄξους, with Swete’s illustrative note. The power of ";gall"; in medical and magical receipts is discussed by Olsson ad P Osl I. 1.284 (iv/A.D.) (p. 104 f.). In Herodas III. 70 (ed. Headlam) δότω τις ἐς τὴν χεῖρα πρὶν χολῇ βῆξαι, editor translates ";put it into my hand before I choke with choler"; : (see the note p. 150).
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