STRONGS G293:
ἀμφίβληστρον,
-ου,
τό, (
ἀμφιβάλλω), in Greek writings
anything thrown around one to impede his motion, as chains, a garment; specifically,
a net for fishing [
casting-net]:
Mark 1:16 R G L;
Matthew 4:18. (
Sept.; Hesiod scut. 215; Herodotus 1, 141;
Athen. 10, 72, p. 450.)
[Synonym: see
δίκτυον, and cf. Trench, § lxiv.;
B. D. under the word net.]
Related entry:
ἀμφιβάλλω;
to throw around, equivalent to
περιβάλλω, of a garment (Homer Odyssey 14, 342);
to cast to and fro now to one side now to the other: a net,
Mark 1:16 G L T Tr WH [according to
T Tr WH used absolutely; cf.
οἱ ἀμϕιβολεῖς,
Isaiah 19:8]. (
Habakkuk 1:17)
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