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Headword: Κατέδει
Adler number: kappa,919
Translated headword: bound
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
[He/she/it] fettered. Josephus [writes]: "and [Delilah] bound this man [Samson] with the vine-branches as tightly as possible."[1]
Greek Original:
Κατέδει: ἐδέσμει. Ἰώσηπος: καὶ κατέδει τοῦτον τοῖς κλήμασι κατὰ τὸ ἰσχυρότατον.
Notes:
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given. (NB the tense is actually imperfect, i.e. perhaps conative -- sought to bind).
[1] Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 5.309 (web address 1); cf. generally sigma 87.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; religion; women
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 31 July 2008@12:43:02.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; modified keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 1 August 2008@03:58:37.
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