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                    "dictionary": "LSJ",
                    "reference": "Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1940)",
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                    "description": "ἡ, <b>anything twisted<\/b> or <b>wound<\/b>, ποιεῖν τι οἷον σπεῖραν twist it into <b>a ball<\/b>, Hp. <i>Morb.<\/i> 2.33. pl., <b>coils<\/b> or <b>spires<\/b> of a serpent, S. <i>Fr.<\/i> 535 (anap.), Ar. <i>Fr.<\/i> 500; πολύπλοκοι σ. E. <i>Med.<\/i> 481, cf. <i>Ion<\/i> 1164; so in sg., Nic. <i>Th.<\/i> 156, A.R. 4.151, Arat. 47, 89, etc.<br\/><b>rope, cord<\/b>, Nic. <i>Fr.<\/i> 74.21, <font color='red'>f.l.<\/font> in Hp. <i>Steril.<\/i> 235; σπείραισι δικτυοκλώστοις with the net΄s meshy <b>folds<\/b>, S. <i>Ant.<\/i> 346 (lyr.); <b>ship΄s cable<\/b>, Plu. 2.507b; <b>padded circle<\/b> used by women carrying weights on their head, Aët. 12.55; so by Atlas, Apollod. 2.5.11; as a lamp-stand, ἀρτεμισίας σ. ἐπὶ τὸν λύχνον PMagLond. 121.601 (cf. σπειρίον III); <b>round cushion<\/b>, IG 5(1).1390.24 (Andania, i BC).<br\/><b>a mode of dressing the hair<\/b>, Poll. 2.31, 4.149. σ. βόειαι <b>thongs<\/b> or <b>straps<\/b> of ox-hide to guard and arm a boxer΄s fist, Theoc. 22.80.<br\/><b>knot<\/b> or <b>curl in wood<\/b>, Thphr. <i>HP<\/i> 5.2.3, Plin. <i>HN<\/i> 16.198. a kind of <b>cheesecake<\/b> (al. σπῖρα), Chrysipp.Tyan. ap. Ath. 14.647d.<br\/><b>rounded moulding<\/b> in the base of an Ionic or Corinthian column, <b>torus<\/b>, IG1². 372.64, <i>Sardis<\/i> 7(1) No.181 (i AD), CIG 2713-14 (Labranda), Poll. 7.121, Vitr. 3.5.3.<br\/>Geom., <b>anchor-ring, tore<\/b>, produced by revolution of a circle about a line in its plane but not passing through the centre, Hero <i>Def.<\/i> 97, Procl. <i>in Euc.<\/i> p. 119 F. Milit., <b>tactical unit<\/b>, in the Ptolemaic army, BGU 1806.4 (i BC); used to translate the Roman <b>manipulus<\/b>, Plb. 11.23.1, al., Str. 12.3.18, Plu. <i>Aem.<\/i> 17; κατὰ σπείρας, = Lat. <b>manipulatim<\/b>, Plb. 3.115.12; later, <b>cohort<\/b>, Act. Ap. 10.1, J. <i>BJ<\/i> 3.4.2, IGRom. 1.10 (Massilia), 1373 (Egypt), al., OGI 208.2 (Nubia, ii AD), al. (gen. in this sense always σπείρης, Act. Ap. <i>l.c.<\/i>, POxy. 477.3 (ii AD), BGU 73 (ii AD), OGI <i>l.c.<\/i>, etc.). = θίασος, <b>religious college<\/b> or <b>guild<\/b>, gen. σπείρης IG 14.925 (Portus Trajani); dat. σπείρῃ <i>ib.<\/i> 977 (Rome), <i>Inscr.Perg.<\/i> 319, 320; nom. σπεῖρα AEM 14.28 (Roumania); Lat. <b>spira<\/b>, CIL 6.261 (Rome), al. (cf. σπειράρχης)."
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                    "dictionary": "Pape",
                    "reference": "Pape, Griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (3. Aufl., 1914)",
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                    "description": "ἡ, auch <b>σπείρα<\/b> betont, das lat. <i>spira, alles Gewundene<\/i> ; vom Netze, ἄγει πόντου τ' εἰναλίαν φύσιν σπείραισι δικτυοκλώστοις, Soph. <i>Ant<\/i>. 346 ; σπείραις πολυπλόκοις, Eur. <i>Med<\/i>. 481 ; σπεῖραι τριχῶν, <i>Haarflechten<\/i>, Poll. 2.31, 4.149.<br\/>Bei Apolld. 2.5.11, σπεῖραν ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς ποιήσασθαι, wie <i>Schol. Ap.Rh<\/i>. 4.1396 <i>ein Ring, den man unter die auf dem Kopfe zu tragende Last legte<\/i>. – Auch <i>die Basis, Unterlage einer Säule<\/i> ; – βόειαι σπεῖραι, <i>der von Ochsenleder gemachte, um die Faust gewundene caestus der Faustkämpfer<\/i>, Theocr. 22.80. – <i>Windung, Schneckenlinie, der gewundene Gang der Schlangen<\/i>, Arat. 446 ; ὁλκοὶ τοῦ ὄφεως, Suid., u. ähnl. – Auch <i>ein Schiffstan<\/i>, das man im Sturme auswarf und hinter dem Schiffe schleppen ließ, um den schwankenden u. schnellen Gang des Schiffes zu sichern u. zu hemmen, νεὼς μὲν γὰρ ἁρπαγείσης ὑπὸ πνεύματος ἐπιλαμβάνονται σπείραις καὶ ἀγκύραις τὸ τάχος ἀμβλύνοντες, Plut. <i>garrul<\/i>. 10 ; vgl. Luc. <i>Tox<\/i>. 10. – Im Holze solche Stellen, wo die Holzfasern schneckenförmig in einander gewunden sind, <i>Maser<\/i>, Theophr.<br\/>Bei Pol. der römische <i>manipulus<\/i>, der dritte Teil der Cohorte, 11.23.1 u. sonst ; κατὰ σπείρας, <i>manipulatim<\/i>, 3.115.12 u. öfter ; Plut., <i>NT<\/i> u. a.Sp. – Vgl. noch σπάρτος, σπάργω, σπάργανον u. σφαῖρα."
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                    "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>σπείρα<\/b>, -ης<br\/> (on this form of genitive, see M, <i>Pr.<\/i>, 38, 48; Bl., § 7, 1; Mayser, 12; Deiss., BS, 186), [in LXX: Jdth.14:11, 2Ma.8:23 2Mac 12:20 2Mac 12:22 * ;] <br\/>__1. (= Lat. spira) anything wound or rolled up, a coil. <br\/> __2. As a military term used (by Polyb. and later writers) of a body of soldiers, a maniple (third part of a cohort) or cohort (see Swete, <i>Mk.<\/i>, 375; Westc., Jo., 251 f.): Mat.27:27, Mrk.15:16, Jhn.18:3, 12, Act.10:1 21:31 27:1.†<br\/> (AS)"
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