STRONGS G2877:
κοράσιον,
κορασίου,
τό (diminutive of
κόρη), properly, a colloquial word used disparagingly (like the German
Mädel),
a little girl (in the epigram attributed to
Plato in (
Diogenes Laërtius 3, 33;
Lucian, as. 6); used by later writers without disparagement (
Winers Grammar, 24 (23)),
a girl, damsel, maiden:
Matthew 9:24;
Matthew 14:11;
Mark 5:41;
Mark 6:22,
28; (occasionally, as in
Epictetus diss. 2, 1, 28; 3, 2, 8; 4, 10, 33; the
Sept. for
נַעֲרָה; twice also for
יַלְדָּה Joel 3:3 (Joel 4:3);
Zechariah 8:5; (Tobit 6:12; Judith 16:12;
Esther 2:2)). The form and use of the word are fully discussed in Lobeck ad Phryn., p. 73f, cf. Sturz, De dial. Maced. etc., p. 42f.
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