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Strong's #3024 - λήθη
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- forgetfulness
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λήθ-η,
Dor. λάθα, ἡ,
I forgetting, forgetfulness, personified in Hes. Th. 227; μηδέ σε λήθη αἱρείτω Il. 2.33; [ Περσεφόνη] βροτοῖς παρέχει λήθην, βλάπτουσα νόοιο Thgn. 705; κακοῦ λ. S. Ph. 878, cf. E. Ba. 282, Or. 213; λήθην ποιεύμενος τά μιν ἐόργεε forgetting.., Hdt. 1.127; λ. ποιεῖν τινος S. Fr. 259; Λήθην.. κωφήν, ἄναυδον Id. Fr. 670; χρόνος πάντα.. ἐς λ. ἄγει Id. Fr. 954; τῶν ἰδίων λ. λαβών Timocl. 6.5, cf. Phld. Rh. 1.254 S.; τῶν αὑτοῦ κακῶν ἐπάγεσθαι λ. Men. 467; παρέχειν Pl. Phdr. 275a; ἐμποιεῖν Id. Phlb. 63e; λήθην ἐμποιῆσαι τῶν πεπραγμένων Isoc. 1.8; εἰς λήθην ἐμβαλεῖν τινα Aeschin. 3.205; λήθη λαμβάνει, ἔχει τινά, Th. 2.49, D. 18.283; λήθη τινὸς ἐγγίγνεταί τινι X. Mem. 1.2.21; εἰς λ. ἀφιγμένα forgotten, Phld. Ir. p.19 W.
II after Hom., of a place of oblivion in the lower world, Λήθης δόμοι Simon. 184.6; τὸ Λήθης πεδίον Ar. Ra. 186; τὸ τῆς Λ. π. Pl. R. 621a, D.H. 8.52; Λ. ὕδωρ Luc. DMort. 13.6, Paus. 9.39.8, Aesop. 168; also, ὁ τῆς Λήθης ποταμός, of the river Λιμαίας in Lusitania, Str. 3.3.4, 5, cf. App. Hisp. 73 (71). (Λήθη as pr. n. of a river is not found.)
λήθη, λήθης, ἡ (λήθω to escape notice, λήθομαι to forget) (from Homer down), forgetfulness: λήθην τίνος λαβεῖν (see λαμβάνω, I. 6), 2 Peter 1:9.
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λήθη , -ης , ἡ
(< λήθω = λανθάνω ),
[in LXX: Leviticus 5:15 (H4604), Wisdom of Solomon 16:11, Sirach 14:7, al.;]
forgetfulness: λ . λαβεῖν (on the phrase, v. Mayor, in l): 2 Peter 1:9.†
Copyright © 1922 by G. Abbott-Smith, D.D., D.C.L.. T & T Clarke, London.
With 2 Peter 1:9 we may compare Vett. Val. p. 242.4 ἡ δὲ διάνοια. . . ἄλλοτε ἀλλαχοῦ πηδῶσα τὴν πρώτην λήθην ἀναλαμβάνει. The word survives in MGr.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London.
Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder.
