- κάλαμος
- κάλαμος, ου, ὁ (Pind., Hdt. et al.; pap, LXX, TestSol 5:6 L; TestAbr; TestNaphth 2:8 [windpipe, trachea]; JosAs; ApcMos 29; Joseph.; loanw. in rabb.).① reed (for detailed account s. Theophr., HP 4, 11 [also RStrömberg, Theophrastea ’37, 100f]; 3 Km 14:15; Job 40:21; JosAs), swaying in the wind (Lucian, Hermot. 68 ἐοικὼς … καλάμῳ … πρὸς πᾶν τὸ πνέον καμπτομένῳ) Mt 11:7; Lk 7:24; easily broken κ. συντετριμμένος a bent reed Mt 12:20 (cp. Is 42:3 and s. PvanDijk, Het gekrookte riet en de rookende vlaswiek [Mt 12:18 vv.ll.]: GereformTT 23, 1923, 155–72).② stalk, staff (Artem. 2, 48 p. 150; cp. 4 Km 18:21 ἡ ῥάβδος ἡ καλαμίνη=Jos., Ant. 10, 7 κάλαμος; TestSol 5:6 L) Mt 27:29f, 48 (acc. to Zohary, Plants 134, the Phragmitis Australis); Mk 15:19, 36; GPt 3:9.③ measuring rod (PRyl 64, 2; Ezk 40:3ff; 42:16ff) Rv 11:1; 21:15f.④ reed pen (Pla., Phdr. 61 p. 276c; Plut., Demosth. 29, 4; Lucian, Hist. Conscr. 38; Themist., In Constant. p. 31c ἐν καλάμῳ καὶ μέλανι; PGrenf II, 38, 7 [81 B.C.]; POxy 326; 521, 21; Ps 44:2; 3 Macc 4:20; TestAbr A 12 p. 91, 4 [Stone p. 30]) 3J 13.—B. 1290. DELG. M-M. TW.
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