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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - λίψ

λίψ

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Transliteration: líps

Pronunciation: leeps

Definition: southwest


- Original: λίψ

- Transliteration: Lips

- Phonetic: leeps

- Definition:

1. the south west wind

2. the quarter of the heavens whence the south west wind blows

- Origin: "probably from leibo (to pour a "libation")"

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine

- Strong's: Probably from λείβω leibō (to pour a libation); the south (southwest) wind (as bringing rain) that is (by extension) the south quarter: - southwest.


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