- νῖκος
- νῖκος, ους, τό (Manetho, Apot. 1, 358; Orph., Argon. 587; Polemo 1, 12 p. 6, 16; Vett. Val. 358, 5; IG XII/5, 764, 2; BGU 1002, 14 [55 B.C.]; LXX; SibOr 14, 334; 339; Lob. on Phryn. p. 647) late form for ἡ νίκη (JWackernagel, Hellenistica 1907, 26f; EFraenkel, Glotta 4, 1913, 39ff; B-D-F §51, 1; Mlt-H. 126; 381).① victory ποῦ σου θάνατε τὸ ν.; where, O Death, is your victory? 1 Cor 15:55a (after Hos 13:14, where our LXX mss. read ποῦ ἡ δίκη σου, θ. [s. WDittmar, V.T. in Novo 1903, 217 and s. on κέντρον 1], but Paul, influenced by vs. 54, substitutes νῖκος for δίκη; EEllis, Paul’s Use of the OT, ’57, 140). In κατεπόθη ὁ θάνατος εἰς νῖκος death is swallowed up in (or by) victory vs. 54, νῖκος agrees w. the improvement which Theod. made in the LXX wording of Is 25:8 (s. ARahlfs, ZNW 20, 1921, 183f; JZiegler, Is. ’39 ad loc.). Vss. 54 and 55 have the v.l. νεῖκος, q.v. διδόναι τινὶ τὸ ν. give someone the victory vs. 57 (cp. 1 Esdr 3:9; 2 Macc 10:38; Jos., Ant. 6, 145). ἕως ἂν ἐκβάλῃ εἰς ν. τὴν κρίσιν until he leads justice to victory Mt 12:20 (cp. 2 Km 2:26 and variants in Field, Hexapla and the Cambridge LXX; s. κρίσις, end).② the prize of victory, abstr. for concr. (4 Macc 17, 12 τὸ νῖκος ἀφθαρσία) παραδοὺς αὐτῇ τὸ ν. ὸ̔ ἔλαβες give over to it the prize of victory you have won Hm 12, 2, 5 (perh. a phrase like νῖκος λαβών is to be supplied earlier in the sentence).—DELG s.v. νίκη. M-M. TW.
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