A level road, and carrying off booty. It is also a proper name.
*lei/a: o(malh\ o(do/s, kai\ h( lafuragwgi/a. shmai/nei de\ kai\ o)/noma ku/rion.
The headword
lei/a could be the feminine form of
lei=os "smooth", used in the expression
lei/a o(do/s "smooth road" (e.g. Hesiod,
Works and Days 288;
Luke 3:5); or it could be the epic word for "booty" (cf.
lambda 356). As a proper name, it is the
Septuagint's rendering of Leah:
Genesis 29-46
LXX, passim.
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