[Meaning] prophecies. Also a term for apophthegms [coming] from one's own heart.
*lh/mata: profhtei=ai. le/getai de\ kai\ ta\ e)c oi)kei/as kardi/as a)pofqe/gmata.
Same entry elsewhere: see the references at
Photius lambda265 Theodoridis. The neuter plural headword should be
lh/mmata "premisses, sayings". (On this difference of spelling cf. Alexander of
Aphrodisias, under
lambda 441.)
The "prophecy" meaning is LSJ s.v.
lh=mma IV, "burden or commission of prophecy", exemplified by several passages in the
Septuagint; and as Theodoridis notes, the lexicographers' plural is likely to be quoted from
Lamentations 2:14.
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