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Strong's #5262 - ὑπόδειγμα
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- a sign suggestive of anything, delineation of a thing, representation, figure, copy
- an example: for imitation
- of the thing to be imitated
- for a warning, of a thing to be shunned
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ὑπόδειγ-μα, ατος, τό, sign, token, indication, v. l. in X. Eq. 2.2 (pl.); φιλαγαθίας IG 22.1011.81.
2. illustration, picture showing how something is to be done, Apollon.Cit. 2, 3.
II pattern, Plb. 3.17.8; μετανοίας LXX Si. 44.16, cf. 2 Maccabees 6:28; ὑ. καὶ σκιά Hebrews 8:5; cf. Hebrews 9:23; τὸ ὑ. τοῦ οἴκου LXX Ezekiel 42:15 : in Inscrr., πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα ἀρετῆς CIG 2769,2774,2775d (add.), al. (Aphrodisias); καλὸν ὑ. τῆς ἰδίας προαιρέσεως καταβαλλόμενος BMus.Inscr. 925b22 (Branchidae, i B. C.): but also ὑ. ἀπειθίας BGU 747 ii 14 (ii A. D.); ὑ. μελλόντων ἀσεβεῖν 2 Peter 2:6.
III example, instance, AP 6.342, Ph. Bel. 69.10, D.H. Comp. 17, Hp. 17, Herm. in Phdr. p.185 A.; ὑποδείγματος χάριν Nicom. Ar. 1.8; specimen, BGU 1141.43 (i B. C.), etc.: pl., Phld. Rh. 1.8 S., al.: — rejected as less correct than παράδειγμα by the Atticists, Phryn. 4.
ὑπόδειγμα, ὑποδειγματος, τό (ὑποδείκνυμι, which see), a word rejected by the Atticists, and for which the earlier writers used παράδειγμα; see Lob. ad Phryn., p. 12; (Rutherford, New Phryn., p. 62). It is used by Xenophon, r. eq. 2, 2, and among subsequent writings by Polybius, Philo, Josephus, Appian, Plutarch, Herodian, others; cf. Bleek, Brief a. d. Hebrews 2:1, p. 554;
a. a sign suggestive of anything, delineation of a thing, representation, figure, copy: joined with σκιά Hebrews 8:5; with a genitive of the thing represented, Hebrews 9:23.
b. an example: for imitation, διδόναι τίνι, John 13:15; καταλελοιπεναι, 2 Macc. 6:28; with a genitive of the thing to be imitated, James 5:10 (Sir. 44:16; 2 Macc. 6:31); for warning: with a genitive of the thing to be shunned, τῆς ἀπειθείας, Hebrews 4:11; with a genitive of the person to be warned, 2 Peter 2:6 (τούς Ρ᾽ομαιους ... εἰς ὑπόδειγμα τῶν ἄλλων ἐθνῶν καταφλέξειν τήν ἱεράν πόλιν, Josephus, b. j. 2, 16, 4).
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ὑπό -δειγμα , -τος , τό
(< ὑποδείκνυμι ),
[in LXX: Ezekiel 42:15, Sirach 44:16, 2 Maccabees 6:28; 2 Maccabees 6:31, 4 Maccabees 17:23*;]
used by later writers (Xen. onwards) for παράδειγμα (v. Rutherford, NPhr., 62),
(a) a figure, copy: Hebrews 8:5; Hebrews 9:23;
(b) an example: for imitation, John 13:15, James 5:10; for warning, Hebrews 4:11, 2 Peter 2:6.†
SYN.: ὁμοίωμα G3667, τύπος G5179, ὑποτύπωσις G5296 (v. DB, iii. 696b).
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