- ἁλιεύς
- ἁλιεύς, έως, ὁ (cp. the disused loc. form ἁλί [ἅλς] Schwyzer I 476 and cp. 549; on the form ἁλεεῖς, found also Arrian, Anab. 6, 23, 3 [with ἁλεέας twice as v.l.]; PFlor 127, 15 [256 A.D.]; BGU 1035, 6; Is 19:8; Ezk 47:10, and as v.l. in all NT passages, s. B-D-F §29, 5; W.-S. §5, 20a; Mlt-H. 76; 142; DELG s.v. ἅλς) one whose occupation is catching fish, fisher (Hom.+) lit. Mt 4:18; Mk 1:16; Lk 5:2. Fig., of the disciples ποιήσω ὑμᾶς ἁ. ἀνθρώπων I will make you fish for people Mt 4:19; Mk 1:17 (CSmith, HTR 52, ’59, 187–203), allegorically connecting their present and future vocations (Lk 5:10 has for this ἀνθρώπους ἔσῃ ζωγρῶν, s. ζωγρέω). The figure and expr. are also found in ancient wr. (RhM n.s. 35, 1880, 413 no. 12.—See also Diog. L. 4, 16, 17 θηράω=hunt down, in the sense ‘catch someone for one’s point of view’. In 8, 36 Diog. L. has Timon [Fgm. 58 Diels] say of Pythagoras that he went out θήρῃ ἐπʼ ἀνθρώπων=on a hunt for people).—WWuellner, The Mng. of ‘Fishers of Men’ ’67. S. also the lit. s.v. ἀμφιβάλλω.—B. 184. M-M.
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