STRONGS G2576:
καμμύω, a form which passed over from the epic (cf.
Homer batrach. 191) and common language (
Apoll. Dysc. synt. 323, 22; 326, 9) into the Alexandrian and decaying Greek; condemned by Phryn. (as below); derived by syncope and assimilation from
καταμύω (which the earlier and more elegant Greeks use) (cf.
καμμέν,
καμμονη,
κάμμορος, from
κατά μέν,
καταμονη,
καταμορος, cf. Alexander
Buttmann (1873) Gram. § 117, 2 Anm. 2; Ausf. Gram. ii., p. 373; Fischer, De vitiis lexamples N. T., p. 678f; Sturz, De dial. Maced. etc., p. 173f;
Lob. ad Phryn., p. 339f; Schäfer ad Lamb. Bos, p. 368; (cf.
Buttmann, 62 (55);
Winer's Grammar, 24, 46)): 1 aorist
ἐκάμμυσα;
to shut the eyes, close the eyes: often with
τούς ὀφθαλμούς added; so
Matthew 13:15 and
Acts 28:27 (from the
Sept. Isaiah 6:10, for
הָשַׁע, i. e. to besmear), in both passages the phrase designates the inflexible pertinacity and obstinacy of the Jews in their opposition to the gospel. (
Isaiah 29:10;
Lamentations 3:43;
καμμύειν τό τῆς ψυχῆς ὄμμα,
Philo de somn. i. § 26.)
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