A proper name.[1] Also [sc. attested in the masculine] sappheiros, a kind of very valuable stone.[2]
[1] That of, notably, the wife of Ananias in Acts 5. Members of the early church in
Jerusalem, they both died after attempting to keep money they had made in a sale. Later Christian writers refer many times to the episode.
[2] LSJ s.v. equate it, rather, with lapis lazuli.
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