- πτερύγιον
- πτερύγιον, ου, τό (πτέρυξ; Aristot. et al.; Aeneas Tact. 1440; ins, LXX; TestSol 22:8) dim. of πτέρυξ ‘wing’; it serves to denote the tip or extremity of anything, end, edge τὸ πτερύγιον τοῦ ἱεροῦ someth. like the pinnacle or summit of the temple Mt 4:5; Lk 4:9 (also in Hegesippus: Eus., HE 2, 23, 11. Rufinus has for this ‘excelsus locus pinnae templi’.—See Theod. Da 9:27 [reading of a doublet; s. ed. JZiegler ’54 p. 191] and M-JLagrange, RB 39, 1930, 190). JJeremias, ZDPV 59, ’36, 195–208 proposes: ‘the lintel or super-structure of a gate of the temple.’ But for Greeks the word for this that was most easily understood would be ὑπέρθυρον (Parmenides [VI/V B.C.], Fgm. 1, 12 [28 B Diels]; Hdt. 1, 179 et al.; also Herodas 2, 65; Artem. 2, 10 p. 97, 26; 4, 42 p. 226, 8.—Jos., Bell. 5, 201 in a description of the Jerus. temple).—DELG s.v. πτερόν. M-M. TW.
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