STRONGS G229:
ἀλήθω; (a common Greek form for the Attic
ἀλέω, cf.
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 151);
to grind:
Matthew 24:41;
Luke 17:35.
It was the custom to send women and female slaves to the mill-houses [?] to turn the hand-mills (
Exodus 11:5), who were called by the Greeks
γυναῖκες ἀλετρίδες (Homer, Odyssey 20, 105); [cf.
B. D. under the word Mill].
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