- φάτνη
- φάτνη, ης, ἡ (also πάθνη, s. Schwyzer I 269; cp. PLips 106, 8 [I A.D.]) manger, crib (so Hom.+; loanw. in rabb.) Lk 13:15. In the Infancy Narrative Lk 2:7, 12, 16 (ἔβαλεν ἐν πάθνῃ βοῶν GJs 22:2; on Lk 2 as anticipation of Jesus’ entombment s. JWinandy, NTS 43, ’97, 140–46) φ. could perh. be a stable (Diod S 17, 95, 2 φ. is a place to keep horses, beside κατασκήνωσις, a place for humans to stay; Aelian, NA 16, 24 p. 402, 10 w. ὁδός) or even a feeding-place under the open sky, in contrast to κατάλυμα, a shelter where people stayed (s. HCadbury, JBL 45, 1926, 317–19; 52, ’33, 61f) or other type of accommodation (s. κατάλυμα.—Manger: AvanVeldhuizen, NThSt 13, 1930, 175–78). Nicol. Dam.: 90 Fgm. 3 p. 330, 15 Jac.—MDibelius, Jungfrauensohn u. Krippenkind ’32, 59ff (Botschaft u. Geschichte I ’53, 1–78).—BHHW II 1014. DELG. M-M. TW.
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