STRONGS G2726:
κατήφεια,
κατηφειας,
ἡ (from
κατηφής, of a downcast look; and this from
κατά, and
τά φαη the eyes;
Etym. Magn. (496, 53)
κατήφεια.
ἀπό τοῦ κάτω τά φαη βάλλειν τούς ὀνειδιζομενους ἤ λυπουμενους; because, as
Plutarch,
de dysopia (others,
de vitioso pudore (528 e.)) c. 1 says, it is
λύπη κάτω βλέπειν ποιοῦσα), properly,
a downcast look expressive of sorrow; hence,
shame, dejection, gloom (
A. V. heaviness):
James 4:9. (
Homer, Iliad 3, 51; 16, 498 etc.;
Thucydides 7, 75;
Josephus, Antiquities 13, 16, 1;
Plutarch, Cor. 20; (Pelop. 33, 3, and often;
Dionysius Halicarnassus, Char., etc.); often in Philo.)
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