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Strong's #2709 - καταχθόνιος
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- subterranean
- refers to those who dwell in the world below, departed souls
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καταχθόν-ιος, ον,
also η, ον A.R. 4.1413: —
subterranean, Ζεὺς καταχθόνιος, i.e. Pluto, Il. 9.457 (but Ζεὺς κ., = Veiouis, D.H. 2.10); of Pluto, Demeter, Persephone, and the Erinyes, IG 3.1423; δαίμονες κ. Hierocl. in CA I p.419 M.; = Lat. Di Manes, AP 7.333; κ.θεοί, = Lat. Di Manes, freq. in sepulchral Inscrr., IG 14.1660, al.
καταχθόνιος, καταχτονιον (κατά (see κατά, III. 3), χθών (the earth)), subterranean, Vulg. infernus: plural, of those who dwell in the world below, i. e. departed souls (cf. Winers Grammar, § 34, 2; but others make the adjective a neuter used indefinitely; see Lightfoot, in the place cited), Philippians 2:10. (Homer, Dionysius Halicarnassus, Anthol., etc., Inscriptions)
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* κατα -χθόνιος , -ον
(< χθών , the earth),
subterranean, under the earth (in cl., of the infernal gods): of the departed in Hades, opp. to ἐπουράνιος , ἐπίγειος , Philippians 2:10.†
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OGIS 382.1 (ii/A.D.)—an inscr. in which Aurelius Pacorus, King of Armenia, announces θ (εοῖς) κ (αταχθονίοις) that he has purchased a sarcophagus for his brother. Cf. such common formulae as CIG III. 4252b.7 ἁμαρτ ]ωλὸς ἒστ [ω θεοῖς κατα ]χθονίοις, 4253.22 ἔστω ἱερόσυλος [θ ]εοῖς οὐ [ρ ]ανίοις καὶ καταχθονίοις, and the mention of ἄγγελοι καταχθόνιοι for the older ἀμφίπολοι χθόνιοι in Audollent 74.1 al.
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