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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - χοῖνιξ

χοῖνιξ

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Transliteration: choînix

Pronunciation: khoy'-nix

Definition: measure


- Original: χοῖνιξ

- Transliteration: Choinix

- Phonetic: khoy'-nix

- Definition:

1. a choenix, a dry measure, containing four cotylae or two setarii (less than our quart, one litre) (or as much as would support a man of moderate appetite for a day)

- Origin: of uncertain derivation

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: Of uncertain derivation; a chaenix or certain dry measure: - measure.


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