- ἄμπελος
- ἄμπελος, ου, ἡ (Hom.+; ins, pap, LXX; En 32:4; JosAs, GrBar, EpArist, Philo; Jos., Ant. 12, 75 κλήματα ἀμπέλων σὺν βότρυσιν; Just.; Ath. 22:6f; Did., Gen. 31, 27; s. Frisk s.v. on futile attempts to establish I-E. or Semitic origin) vine, grapevineⓐ lit. 1 Cl 23:4=2 Cl 11:3 (quot. of unknown orig.); Hs 5, 2, 5; 5, 2; 9, 26, 4. τὸ γένημα τῆς ἀ. (cp. Is 32:12) Mt 26:29; Mk 14:25; Lk 22:18. μὴ δύναται ποιῆσαι ἄ. σῦκα; can a grapevine yield figs? Js 3:12 (Plut., Mor. 472e τὴν ἄμπελον σῦκα φέρειν οὐκ ἀξιοῦμεν; Epict. 2, 20, 18 πῶς δύναται ἄμπελος μὴ ἀμπελικῶς κινεῖσθαι, ἀλλʼ ἐλαϊκῶς κτλ.;). Trained on elm trees Hs 2:1ff. τρυγᾶν τοὺς βότρυας τῆς ἀ. τῆς γῆς to harvest the grapes fr. the vine of the earth (i.e. fr. the earth, symbol. repr. as a grapevine) Rv 14:18f; but ἀ may be taking on the meaning of ἀμπελών, as oft. in pap, possibly PHib 70b, 2 [III B.C.]; PTebt 24, 3; PAmh 79, 56; PFlor 50, 2; Greek Parchments fr. Avroman in Medina (JHS 34, 1914); Aelian, NA 11, 32 p. 286, 12 Hercher acc. to the mss. (see p. xl); Themistius 21 p. 245d; Aesop mss. (Ursing 77f). In the endtime: dies, in quibus vineae nascentur, singulae decem milia palmitum habentes Papias (1:2; cp. En 10:19).—Lit. on οἶνος 1 and συκῆ. HLutz, Viticulture … in the Ancient Orient 1922; ILöw, D. Flora d. Juden I 1928, 48–189.ⓑ fig. of Christ and his disciples: he is the vine, they the branches J 15:1, 4f (cp. Cornutus 27 p. 51, 3, where the pleasant state for the ἄμπ. is τὸ πολυφόρον κ. καθαρόν; Sir 24:17 of wisdom: ἐγὼ ὡς ἄ. ἐβλάστησα χάριν; Did., Gen. 86, 11 ἡ ψυχὴ ποτὲ μὲν ἄμπελος, ποτὲ δὲ πρόβατον, ποτὲ νύμφη … λέγεται). The words of the eucharistic prayer over the cup in D 9:2 cannot be explained w. certainty εὐχαριστοῦμέν σοι … ὑπὲρ τῆς ἁγίας ἀ. Δαυὶδ τοῦ παιδός σου, ἧς ἐγνώρισας ἡμῖν διὰ Ἰησοῦ τοῦ παιδός σου (s. AHarnack, TU II 1f, 1884 ad loc.; 6, 225ff; RKnopf, Hdb. ad loc.)—M-M. TW.
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