- δόσις
- δόσις, εως, ἡ(s. δότη)① gift (so since Hom.; Theogn. 444 ἀθανάτων δ.; Sir 18:15, 16, 18; 20:14; 26:14 al.; EpArist 229 θεοῦ δ.; Philo, Cher. 84; Jos., Ant. 1, 181) Js 1:17 (TestZeb 1:3 δ. ἀγαθή of a gift fr. God; HGreeven, TZ 14, ’58, 1–13).② giving (Antiphon, Hdt.; LXX; EpArist 22; Jos., Ant. 17, 327) Mt 6:1 v.l. δ. καὶ λῆμψις (Epict. 2, 9, 12; Artem. 1, 42 p. 39, 24; Vett. Val. [ind. III]; PTebt 277, 16; Sir 41:21; 42:7) giving and receiving, debit and credit Phil 4:15 (on the implied reciprocity system cp. the ground-breaking anthropological perspective of MMaus, Essai sur le don, forme archaïque de l’échange: L’Année Sociologique, n.s. 1, 1923/1924, 30–126); cp. Hm 5, 2, 2. Kl.Pauly II 151–53.—DELG s.v. δίδωμι. M-M.
Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία. 2015.