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Strong's #1009 - βότρυς
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- a bunch or cluster of grapes
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βότρυς, υος, ὁ (heterocl. pl. βότρυα, τά, Euph. 149), bunch of grapes, μέλανες δ' ἀνὰ βότρυες ἦσαν Il. 18.562, etc.: pl., grapes, Hp. Vict. 2.55: prov., βότρυς πρὸς βότρυν πεπαίνεται Jul. Or. 7.225b.
2. = sq. 1, βότρυς κόμης AP 5.286 (Agath.), cf. Nonn. D. 1.528, etc.
3. clustered ear-ring, Ar. Fr. 320.10.
II
1. = ἀμβροσία and ἀρτεμισία, Dsc. 3.114.
2. oak of Jerusalem, Chenopodium Botrys, ib.115.
III the Pleiades, Sch. Il. 18.486.
βότρυς, βότρυος, ὁ, a bunch or cluster of grapes: Revelation 14:18 (cf. Buttmann, 14 (13)). (Genesis 40:10; Numbers 13:24f. Greek writings from Homer down.)
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βότρυς , -υος , ὁ ,
[in LXX for H811;]
a cluster of grapes: Revelation 14:18 (cf. σταφυλή ).†
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BGU IV. 1118.14 (B.C. 22) σταφυλῆς βότρυας ὀγδοήκοντα . Similarly P Lips I. 30.4 (iii/A.D.). A subst. βοτρεύς , hitherto unknown to the lexicons, occurs in a list of persons employed by certain village officials, P Lond. II. 189.58 (ii/A.D.) (= II. p. 157)—was he a ";grape-picker";? The note in Moeris (p. 105), βότρυς , μακρόν , Ἀττικῶς . βραχύ , Ἑλληνικῶς . makes this word—presumably representing its class—an instance of the tendency to shorten vowels : incidentally it tells us that quantities were not yet levelled as in MGr.
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