A proper name.[1] Also [sc. attested in the masculine] sappheiros, [meaning] a kind of very valuable stone.[2]
*sa/pfeira: o)/noma ku/rion. kai\ *sa/pfeiros, ei)=dos li/qou poluti/mou.
[1] That of, notably, the wife of Ananias in
Acts 5. Members of the early church in
Jerusalem, they both died after attempting to keep money they had made in a sale. Later Christian writers refer many times to the episode.
[2] Not, as one might have supposed, what is nowadays called sapphire (a blue corundum), but
lapis lazuli: see LSJ s.v.
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