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by Barry Hofstetter » Thu Feb 07, 2019 10:36 am
πρασιά, ᾶς, ἡ (πράσον ‘leek’ [prop. ‘bed of leeks’]; Hom. [πρασιή] et al.; PTebt 703, 198 [III B.C.: πρασιά]; BGU 530, 27 [πρασεά]; Sir 24:31) fr. the lit. sense ‘garden plot, garden bed’ it is but a short step to the imagistic πρασιαὶ πρασιαί group by group, picturing the groups of people contrasted w. the green grass Mk 6:40 (on the distributive force of the repetition cp. Hs 8, 2, 8 τάγματα τάγματα and s. B-D-F §493, 2; Mlt. 97; Rob. 673).—DELG s.v. πράσον. M-M.
Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., Bauer, W., & Gingrich, F. W. (2000). A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (3rd ed., p. 860). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
The Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy
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