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                    "dictionary": "Bailly",
                    "reference": "Bailly 2020 Hugo Chávez Gérard Gréco, André Charbonnet, Mark De Wilde, Bernard Maréchal & contributeurs \/ Licence Creative Commons Attribution - Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale - Pas de Modification — « CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 »",
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                    "description": "<b>ου (τὸ)<\/b> <i>v<\/i>. νῶτος."
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                    "description": "τό, or νῶτος, ὁ, pl. always νῶτα, τά in early writers (οἱ νῶτοι LXX 3 Ki. 7.19 (33)) ; the gender of thesg. is undetermined in Hom. and Hes. ; neut. in Pi. <i>P.<\/i> 1.28, 4.83, E. <i>Cyc.<\/i> 237, 643, Ar. <i>Eq.<\/i> 289, <i>Pax<\/i> 747, Antiph. 132.6 (anap.), and always in <i>Att.<\/i> acc. to Phryn. 257, etc. ; acc. νῶτον is masc. in Hp. <i>Prorrh.<\/i> 2.30, 40, X. <i>Eq.<\/i> 3.3 (as cited by Hdn. <i>Gr.<\/i> 1.215), Arist. <i>HA<\/i> 512b17, 544a6, Ephor. 224J. : — <b>back<\/b>, both cf men and animals ; sg., of a man, <i>Il.<\/i> 5.147, 13.289, etc. ; of a boar, φρίσσεινῶτον <i>ib.<\/i> 473 ; ν.… ὄϊος καὶ πίονος αἰγός 9.207 ; of horses, ἐπὶ νῶτον ἐῗσαι 2.765 ; of an eagle, Pi. <i>P.<\/i> 1.9 ; pl. freq. used in Poets in sense of sg., δράκων ἐπὶ νῶτα δαφοινός <i>Il.<\/i> 2.308, cf. <i>Od.<\/i> 6.225, etc. ; sts. in Ep. of the <b>chine<\/b> of an animal served as food, νῶτα βοὸς… πίονα <i>ib.<\/i> 4.65 ; νώτοισιν δ’ Ὀδυσῆα διηνεκέεσσι γέραιρεν 14.437, cf. <i>Il.<\/i> 7.321 ; of men in battle, τὰ νῶτα ἐντρέψαι to turn <b>the back<\/b>, i.e. flee, Hdt. 7.211 ; νῶτον ἐπιστρέψαι Orac. <i>ib.<\/i> 141 ; σν μὴ δῷς ν. μηδενί PTeb. 21.8 (ii BC) ; δοτέον τὰ ν. Plu. 2.787f ; δεῖξαι νῶτα Id. <i>Marc.<\/i> 12 (this phrase also of the winner in a race, <i>AP<\/i> 9.557 (Antip. Thess.)) ; πίπτειν ἐπὶ νώτῳ A. <i>Supp.<\/i> 91 (lyr.) ; κατὰ νώτου in <b>rear<\/b>, κατὰ νώτου γενέσθαι τινός Hdt. 1.9, 10 ; τὸ στρατόπεδον κατὰ ν. λαβεῖν <i>ib.<\/i> 75 ; κατὰ ν. βοηθεῖν Th. 1.62, etc. ; κατὰ νῶτα Theoc. 22.84 ; <b>back<\/b> of the finger, Procop.Gaz. <i>Ecphr.<\/i> 168.11. <i>metaph<\/i>, <b>any wide surface<\/b>, esp. of the sea, ἐπ’ εὐρέα νῶτα θαλάσσης <i>Il.<\/i> 2.159, <i>Od.<\/i> 3.142, cf. Hes. <i>Th.<\/i> 762 ; ἐν νώτοισι ποντίας ἁλός E. <i>Hel.<\/i> 129 ; πόντου ΄πὶ νώτοις <i>ib.<\/i> 774 ; also of the land, σχίζε ν. γᾶς Pi. <i>P.<\/i> 4.228, cf. 26 ; χθονὸς ν. E. <i>IT<\/i> 46 ; of the sky, ἀστεροειδέα ν. αἰθέρος Id. <i>Fr.<\/i> 114ap. Ar. <i>Th.<\/i> 1067 (lyr.) ; ἐπὶ τῷ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ν. Pl. <i>Phdr.<\/i> 247c ; but ἕσπερα ν. the <b>evening<\/b>, i.e.<br\/><b>western, sky<\/b>, E. <i>El.<\/i> 731 (lyr.).<br\/><b>ridge<\/b> of a hill or rock, Pi. <i>O.<\/i> 7.87, E. <i>Hipp.<\/i> 128 (lyr.) ; of a tomb, Id. <i>Hel.<\/i> 842, etc. ; of a chariot, Id. <i>Tr.<\/i> 572 (anap.) ; of a saw, <i>AP<\/i> 6.204 (Leon.).<br\/><b>nave<\/b> of a wheel, LXX <i>l.c.<\/i> <b>back<\/b> of a page, Gal. 15.624 ; τὰ κατὰ νώτου POxy. 1725.9 (iii AD). (Perh. cf. Lat. nates.)"
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                    "reference": "Pape, Griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (3. Aufl., 1914)",
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                    "description": "τό, s. νῶτος."
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                    "dictionary": "TBESG",
                    "reference": "Translators Brief lexicon of Extended Strongs for Greek based on Abbot-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) (=AS), with corrections and adapted by Tyndale Scholars",
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                    "description": " <b>νῶτος<\/b>, -ου, ὁ <br\/> in Att.. most freq. τὸ νῶτον, and in pl. always τὰ νῶτα, [in LXX, ὁ ν., pl., οἱ νῶτοι and τὰ νῶτα, chiefly for כָּתֵף, also for עֹרֶף, מֹתֶן ;] <br\/><b>\/the back<\/b>: Rom.11:10 (LXX).†<br\/> (AS)"
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