- κύων
- κύων, κυνός, ὁ (Hom. et al. in lit. and transf. sense, and either masculine or feminine)① dog Lk 16:21 (licking sores: SIG 1169, 37; IG IV, 951; cp. Aelian, NA 8, 9) 2 Pt 2:22 (Pr 26:11; cp. Paroem. Gr.: Gregor. Cypr. 2, 83 κ. ἐπὶ τὸν ἴδιον ἔμετον); PtK 2 p. 14, 20. As an unclean animal w. χοῖρος Ox 840, 33 (cp. Ps.-Aristot., Mirabilia 116 κύνες and ὕες as unclean animals that eat human filth; s. KRengstorf, Rabb. Texte, ser. 1, vol. III ’33ff, p. 35f; but s. SLonsdale, Attitudes towards Animals in Ancient Greece: Greece and Rome 26, ’79, 146–59 [lit. p. 158, n. 1]); this pass. is taken fig. of unclean persons (s. 2 below) by JJeremias, ConNeot XI, ’47, 104f. μὴ δῶτε τὸ ἅγιον τ. κυσίν Mt 7:6 (s. χοῖρος) must be a proverbial saying, and in its present context appears to be a warning against untimely or imprudent approaches to those in need of counsel or correction. Differently D 9:5 in the citation of this pass., s. 2.② a cultically impure person, unqualified, the mng. assigned in D 9:5 to κ. Mt 7:6, a pass. that readily adapts itself to a variety of applications. Thus as early as the Didache the ‘dogs’ and ‘swine’ of the pass. were taken as specific referents to those who were unbaptized and therefore impure.③ an infamous pers., dog, fig. extension of 1: in invective (as early as Homer; s. also Dio Chrys. 8 [9], 3; BGU 814, 19; Ps 21:17; Just., D. 104, 1) Phil 3:2 (Straub 58); Rv 22:15. Dissidents are compared to mad dogs IEph 7:1 (s. Philo, Omn. Prob. Lib. 90. Μαρκίων ἢ τῶν ἐκείνου κυνῶν τις Hippol., Ref. 7, 30, 1).—Billerbeck I 477, 722f; III 621f, 773; Kl.-Pauly II 1245ff.—B. 179. DELG (read κύων). M-M. EDNT. TW.
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