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Strong's #2884 - κόρος
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- a corus or cor, the largest Hebrew dry measure (i.e, for wheat, meal etc.) about 10 to 11 bushels (350 to 400 l)
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κόρος
(A), ὁ,
1. satiety, surfeit, αἶψά τε φυλόπιδος πέλεται κ. ἀνθρώποισιν Il. 19.221; αἰψηρὸς δὲ κ. κρυεροῖο γόοιο Od. 4.103; πάντων μὲν κ. ἐστί, καὶ ὕπνου καὶ φιλότητος Il. 13.636; ἀπὸ κ. ἀμβλύνει αἰανὴς ἐλπίδας Pi. P. 1.82; κόρον ἔχει μέλι Id. N. 7.52; κ. ἔχειν δακρύων, κακῶν, E. Alc. 185, Ph. 1750 (lyr.); also κόρον ἡ τούτων συνουσία ἔχει Pl. Phdr. 240c; ἐς κ. ἰέναι τινός Philox. 2.38; ἄχρι κόρου D. 19.187; ἐς κόρον Luc. Merc.Cond. 26, Gal. 15.500, Vict.Att. 8; πρὸς ἡδονήν τε καὶ κ. gormandizing, Hp. VM 14: in mystical sense, opp. χρησμοσύνη, Heraclit. 65.
2. the consequence of satiety, insolence, Pi. O. 2.95, I. 3.2; πρὸς κόρον insolently, A. Ag. 382 (lyr.): freq. as cause or consequence of ὕβρις, τίκτει τοι κόρος ὕβριν, ὅταν κακῷ ὄλβος ἕπηται ἀνθρώπῳ Thgn. 153, cf. So 8; ὕβριν κόρου ματέρα Pi. O. 13.10; κόρον, ὕβριος υἱόν Bacis ap. Hdt. 8.77. (Cf. κορέννυμι.)
κόρος
(B), ὁ, Ion. κοῦρος, as always in Hom., Pi., and lyr. passages of Trag. (exc. E. Alc. 904), sts. in late Gr., REt.Gr. 42.247 (Varna); Dor. κῶρος Theoc. 15.120: —
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1. boy, lad (even before birth, ὃν.. γαστέρι μήτηρ κοῦρον ἐόντα φέροι Il. 6.59, cf. Call. Del. 212), κοῦρος πρῶτον ὑπηνήτης Il. 24.347; πρωθῆβαι Od. 8.262; τότε κοῦρος ἔα, νῦν αὖτέ με γῆρας ὀπάζει Il. 4.321; σὺν κόροις τε καὶ κόραις A. Fr. 43: in mock Trag., Οἰδίπου.. παῖδε, διπτύχω κόρω Ar. Fr. 558: rarein Prose, Pl. Lg. 772a; male infant, ἔτεκε κόρον Conon 33.3, cf. IG 42(1).121.5 (Epid., iv B. C.); in Il. of warriors, 9.86, 12.196, al.; κοῦροι Βοιωτῶν, Ἀθηναίων, Ἀχαιῶν, 2.510, 551, 562; λεκτοὶ Ἀθηναίων κ. E. Supp. 356; also, of servants waiting at sacrifices and feasts, Il. 1.470, al.; at Sparta, κόροι, = ἱππεῖς, Archyt. ap. Stob. 4.1.138.
2. with gen. of pr. n., son, Od. 19.523, etc.; Θησέως κ. S. Ph. 562, cf. Tr. 644 (lyr.); τῶν ὀλωλότων κόροι E. Supp. 107; Κεκροπιδῶν κόροι, periphr. like παῖδες, Eub. 10.6.
3. puppet, doll, used in Magic, S. Fr. 536.
II shoot, sprout, of a tree, κόρους πλεκτοὺς.. μυρρίνης Lysipp. 9, cf. Hp. ap. Gal. 19.113, EM 276.28, Hsch.; cf. κοῦρος (B).
III for Comp. v. κουρότερος. (Acc. to Eust. 582.20, al., from κείρω, of one who has cut his hair short on emerging from boyhood: but κόρ(ϝ) ος (masc. of κόρη) perh. cogn. with Lat. Ceres, Cerus, cresco.)
κόρος
(C), ὁ, besom, Hsch.
κόρος
(D), ὁ, Hebr. kor,
a dry measure containing, acc. to J. AJ 15.9.2, 10 Att. medimni (about 120 gallons), LXX Numbers 11:32, al., Luke 16:7, cf. Eupolem. ap. Alex. Polyh. 18.
κόρος, κόρου, ὁ (Hebrew כֹּר), a corus or cor (cf. Ezekiel 45:14), the largest Hebrew dry measure (i. e. for wheat, meal, etc.); according to Josephus (Antiquities 15, 9, 2) equal to ten Attic medimni (but cf. B. D. under the word
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κόρος , -ου , ὁ
(Heb. H3734),
[in LXX: Leviticus 27:16, Numbers 11:32, Ezekiel 45:13 (H2563); more freq., 2 Chronicles 27:5, al.(H3734);]
a cor, a Hebrew measure (AV, RV, measure): Luke 16:7.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
This Hellenized Semitic word denoting a measure, cor or homer = 10 ephahs, is fairly common in the LXX, but in the NT is confined to Luke 16:7. See Lewy Fremdwörter, p. 116.
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