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Strong's #1332 - διετής
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- of two years, two years old
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δι-ετής, ές, or διέτης, ες,
I of or lasting two years, χρόνος Hdt. 2.2, etc.; κύησις Arist. GA 777b15, etc.; ἀρξάμενος ἀπὸ διετοῦς Id. HA 500a11; ἐπὶ διετὲς ἡβᾶν to be two years past puberty, Isaiah 10:12, Aeschin. 3.122, Lexap. D. 46.20.
II two years old, Arist. HA 545b11.
III = sq., Hsch.
διετής, διετες (δίς and ἔτος) (from Herodotus down), of two years, two years old: ἀπό διετοῦς namely, παιδός, Matthew 2:16, cf. Fritzsche at the passage; (others take διετοῦς here as neuter; see Meyer).
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** διετής , -ές
(< δίς , ἔτος ),
[in LXX: 2 Maccabees 10:3 *;]
1. lasting two years.
2. two years old: ἀπὸ δ . (sc. παιδός , or neuter; cf. 1 Chronicles 27:23, ἀπὸ εἰκοσαετοῦς ), Matthew 2:16.†
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P Amh II. 87.28 (lease of land—A.D. 125) ἀμεθέστατόν σε φυλάξω [ε ]ἰ [ς ] τὸν διετῆ χρόνον, ";I will guarantee your tenancy for the period of two years"; (Edd.) : cf. P Lond 856.7 (late i/A.D.) (= III. p. 92) διετο ̣[ῦ ]ς ̣ and OGIS 513.13 (iii/A.D.) Αὐρ (ηλίαν) . . . ἱερασαμένην ἐνδόξως καὶ μεγαλοπρεπῶς διετεῖ χρόνῳ, JHS xxxiv. p. 1 ff., inscr. no. 13.10 (Lycia) θύσει δ [ὲ κ ]τήτωρ τῆς ο [ἰ ]κίας [κα ]τ᾽ ἐνιαυτὸν ἐν τῇ ι ̄β [το ]ῦ Ξανδικοῦ ἔριφον [δ ]ιτ [ῆ ] (l. διετῆ), P Cairo Preis 31.20 (A.D. 139–40) ἐπὶ ] δ ̣ιετῆ χρόνον ἀπὸ τοῦ εἰσιόντος μηνό [ς
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