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Strong's #2726 - κατήφεια
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- a downcast look expressive of sorrow
- shame, dejection, gloom
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κατήφ-εια,
Ion. and κατηφ-είη, ἡ, (κατηφής)
dejection (λύπη κάτω βλέπειν ποιοῦσα Plu. 2.528e), δυσμενέσιν μὲν χάρμα κατηφείην δὲ σοὶ αὐτῷ Il. 3.51; κ. καὶ ὄνειδος 16.498, 17.556; κ. τέ τις ἅμα καὶ κατάμεμψις σφῶν αὐτῶν πολλὴ ἦν Th. 7.75; opp. χαρά, Ephesians 4:9; δυσθυμία καὶ κ. Plu. Them. 9; τὴν βουλὴν ἄχος καὶ κ. ἔσχε Id. Cor. 20, cf. D.H. 3.19, Corn. ND 28, Charito 6.8; κ. καὶ σύννοια Ph. 2.204; κ. καὶ ὀϊζύς Rhian. 1.8.
κατήφεια, κατηφειας, ἡ (from κατηφής, of a downcast look; and this from κατά, and τά φαη the eyes; Etym. Magn. (496, 53) κατήφεια. ἀπό τοῦ κάτω τά φαη βάλλειν τούς ὀνειδιζομενους ἤ λυπουμενους; because, as Plutarch,de dysopia (others,de vitioso pudore (528 e.))
c. 1 says, it is λύπη κάτω βλέπειν ποιοῦσα), properly, a downcast look expressive of sorrow; hence, shame, dejection, gloom (A. V. heaviness"): James 4:9. (Homer, Iliad 3, 51; 16, 498 etc.; Thucydides 7, 75; Josephus, Antiquities 13, 16, 1; Plutarch, Cor. 20; (Pelop. 33, 3, and often; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Char., etc.); often in Philo.)
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* κατήφεια , -ας , ἡ
(< κατηφής , downcast, Wisdom of Solomon 17:4 *),
dejection: James 4:9.†
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In P Oxy III. 471.92 (ii/A.D.) τί οὖν ὁ κατηφὴς σὺ καὶ ὑπεραύ [σ ]τηρος οὐκ ἐκώλυες; the context suggests that κατηφής = ";with eyes cast down for shame,"; and the same reference to the outward expression of the countenance underlies the only occurrence of the subst. in the NT, James 4:9, where it should be rendered ";gloominess"; rather than ";heaviness"; (AV, RV). See also the citations in Field Notes, p. 238, e.g. Charit. Aphrod. vi. 8 : πρὸς δὲ τὴν φήμην κατήφεια πᾶσαν ἔσχε Βαβυλῶνα (these tidings cast a gloom over the whole city).
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