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Headword:
*beze/k
Adler number: beta,227
Translated headword: Bezek
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] lightning.
Ezekiel [writes]: "they were bending back and forth like a type of Bezek" [1]. Which is [to say, a type] of lightning.
*beze/k: a)straph/. *(iezekih/l: a)ne/kampton de\ w(s ei)=dos tou= *beze/k. o(/ e)sti th=s a)straph=s.
Notes:
More briefly -- i.e. without the quotation itself -- already in
Hesychius (beta455).
[1]
Ezekiel 1:14
LXX (not in all manuscripts). Theodoret's commentary on the passage attributes this exegesis of the word to
Symmachus. It also occurs in
Judges 1:4-5
LXX but as a toponym.
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 15 October 2002@15:35:25.
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