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- θρίξ, τριχός, ἡ (Hom.+) hairⓐ of animals τρίχες καμήλου camel’s hair: ἔνδυμα ἀπὸ τρ. κ. a garment of camel’s hair Mt 3:4. So Mk 1:6 says of John the Baptist that he was ἐνδεδυμένος τρίχας κ. dressed in camel’s hair.—Of apocalyptic animals w. long hair Rv 9:8 (JMichl, BZ 23, ’36, 266–88; Biblica 23, ’42, 192f).ⓑ of human hair (Jos., Ant. 15, 86, C. Ap. 1, 282): white, black hair Mt 5:36; cp. Rv 1:14. τρίχες πρεσβύτεραι belonging to an older person, i.e. gray Hv 3, 10, 4f; 3, 12, 1. τρ. λευκαί 4, 2, 1. οὐδὲν … οὔτε θρὶξ οὔτε βλέφαρον nothing, neither a hair nor an eyelash (βλ. apparently=βλεφαρί by synecdoche) AcPlCor 2:30. Coming out easily (ἐκ or ἀπὸ τ. κεφαλῆς) Lk 21:18; Ac 27:34 (cp. 1 Km 14:45). αἱ τρίχες τῆς κεφαλῆς πᾶσαι all the hairs of the head Mt 10:30; Lk 12:7 (Alcaeus 39, 10 [80, 10 D.2] παρὰ μοῖραν Διὸς οὐδὲ τρίχες [here the text breaks off]=‘against the will of Zeus not even the hairs are’ …—The hair as someth. quite worthless: Paroem. Gr. Zen. [time of Hadrian] 2, 4 ἡ θρὶξ οὐδενὸς ἀξία); cp. 7:38 (αἱ τρ. τῆς κεφαλῆς as Jdth 10:3; Ps 39:13; Philo, Leg. ad Gai. 223), 44; J 11:2; 12:3. ἐμπλοκὴ τριχῶν braiding the hair 1 Pt 3:3. τρίχας λελυμένη with the hair loose Hs 9, 9, 5; cp. 9, 13, 8. λαμβάνειν τινὰ ἐν μιᾷ τῶν τρ. αὐτοῦ take someone by a single hair GHb 20, 61. τρίχες ὀρθαί hair standing on end (Il. 24, 359; Lucian, Philops. 22) Hv 3, 1, 5.—DELG. M-M.
Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία. 2015.