- σίναπι
- σίναπι, εως, τό (prob. of foreign origin, Schwyzer I 308) Diocles 141 p. 184, 13; PTebt 9, 13; 18 [III B.C.]; 11, 19 [II B.C.]; PFay 122, 4; 12; 165; PFlor 20, 21 al. in pap; rejected by Phryn. [Lob. 288] in favor of the Attic νάπυ [νᾶπυ], s. Theophr., HP 7, 1, 2f) mustard plant. The precise species cannot be determined, and some may grow to a height of three or more meters. κόκκος σινάπεως mustard seed, popularly viewed as the smallest of all seeds (s. Antig. Car. 91 and likew. word for word Diod S 1, 35, 2 ὁ κροκόδειλος ἐξ ἐλαχίστου γίνεται μέγιστος; cp. Pliny, NH 19, 54, 170; Mishnah, Kilaim 3, 2) Mt 13:31; 17:20; Mk 4:31; Lk 13:19; 17:6.—ILöw, D. Flora d. Juden I 1928, 516–27. On the parable of the mustard seed s. in addition to the interpr. of the parables and of the synoptic gospels CBowen, AJT 22, 1918, 562ff; FJehle, NKZ 34, 1923, 713–19; KClark, ClW 37, ’43/44, 81–83.—Zohary, Plants p. 93 prob. ‘brassica nigra’. BHHW III 1771. DELG s.v. νᾶπυ. M-M. TW.
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