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Headword:
*gaiw/n
Adler number: gamma,85
Translated headword: Gaiôn
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Name of a place. Gaiôn and Pheisôn, names of rivers.[1]
Also [sc. attested is lower-case and differently-accented] gaiw=n, [meaning] of terrestrial matters.
Greek Original:*gaiw/n: o)/noma to/pou. *gaiw\n kai\ *feisw/n, o)no/mata potamw=n. kai\ *gaiw=n, ghi/+nwn pragma/twn.
Note:
[1] cf.
gamma 241,
phi 254. As 'Pison' and 'Gihon', two of the four rivers -- besides the Tigris and the Euphrates -- flowing out of the Garden of Eden (
Genesis 1:10-14). [Attempts to identify them with e.g. the Nile and the
Ganges or with lesser rivers of the Near East began as early as the second century BCE and continue to proliferate in modern encyclopedias and websites.
Caveat lector.]
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 June 2003@03:02:23.
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