STRONGS G844:
αὐτόματος,
-ον, and
-η,
-ον, (from
αὐτός and
μέμαα to desire eagerly, from the obsolete theme
μάω),
moved by one's own impulse, or
acting without the instigation or
intervention of another (from Homer down); often of the earth producing plants of itself, and of the plants themselves and fruits growing without culture; [on its adverbial use cf. Winer's Grammar, § 54, 2]:
Mark 4:28; (Herodotus 2, 94; 8, 138; Plato, polit., p. 272 a.; [Theophrastus, h., p. 2, 1]; Diodorus 1, 8, etc.
Leviticus 25:5,
11). of gates opening of their own accord:
Acts 12:10, (so in Homer, Iliad 5, 749; Xenophon, Hell. 6, 4, 7;
Apoll. Rh. 4, 41; Plutarch, Timol. 12; Nonnus, Dionysius 44, 21; [Dion Cassio, 44, 17]).
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