Lexical Summary ios: rust, poison Original Word: ἰόςTransliteration: ios Phonetic Spelling: (ee-os') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: rust, poison Meaning: rust, poison Strong's Concordance poison, rust. Perhaps from eimi (to go) or hiemi (to send); rust (as if emitted by metals); also venom (as emitted by serpents) -- poison, rust. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2447: ἰόςἰός, ἰοῦ, ὁ (on its very uncertain derivation see Kreussler in Passow, under the word; Curtius, § 591; (Vanicek, p. 969)); 1. poison (of animals): ἰός ἀσπίδων ὑπό τά χείλη αὐτῶν, the poison of asps is under their lips, spoken of men given to reviling and calumniating and thereby injuring others, Romans 3:13 (from Psalm 139:3 2. rust: James 5:3; (Ezekiel 24:6, 11f; Baruch 6:11, 23 (Epistle Jeremiah 12, 24); Theognis, Theocritus, Plato, Theophrastus, Polybius, Lucian, others). |
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