Pergamos, meaning of name (Liddell; Scott; Passow; Drisler, A Greek-English lexicon, based on the German work of Francis Passow, 1850)

Text: "And to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges;" Revelation 2:12

Quote:

   ΠΕΡΙ', Sanscr. PARI, prep. with gen., dat., and acc.: radic. signf. around, about, expressing the relation of circumference to centre, and so strictly different from ἀμφί: cf. the form πέριξ.

   G. in compos. all its chief signfs. recur, esp.,[...]

[...]---IV. generally, a strengthening of the simple notion, beyond measure, very, exceedingly, as in περικαλλής, περίκηλος, περιδείδω, like Lat. per- in permultus, pergratus, perquam, etc. [...]

"περι," Liddell, Henry George; Scott, Robert; Passow, Franz Ludwig Carl Friedrich; Drisler, Henry, A Greek-English lexicon, based on the German work of Francis Passow, New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1850 (, p. 1151-1152).

   ΓΑ'ΜΟΣ, ου, ὁ, [...]

[...]---II. a marriage, the union of man and wife, Hom., etc.: also of mere sexual intercourse, Hemst. Plut. p. 401.---III. wedlock, matrimony, freq. in prose, also in pl. [...]

"γαμοσ," " " (, p. 284).

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