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G2948 κυλλός (kyllós)
Greek
Adjective
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Quick Definition

crippled, lame

Strong's Definition

rocking about, i.e. crippled (maimed, in feet or hands)

Derivation: from the same as G2947 (κυλιόω);

KJV Usage: maimed

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

κυλλός, κυλλή, κυλλόν (akin to κύκλος, κυλίω, Latincircus, curvus, etc.; Curtius, § 81); 1. crooked; of the members of the body (Hippocrates, Aristophanes av. 1379): as distinguished from χωλός, it seems to be injured or disabled in the hands (but doubted by many), Mat_15:30-31 (but here Tr marginal reading brackets κυλλούς and WH read it in marginal reading only). 2. maimed, mutilated (οὕς, Hippocrates, p. 805 (iii., p. 186, Kühn edition)): Mat_18:8; Mar_9:43.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

κυλλός kyllos 4x pr. crooked, bent, maimed, lame, crippled, Mat_18:8 ; Mar_9:43 , used as a noun meaning cripple, Mat_15:30 ff.

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* κυλλός , -ή , -όν , 1. crooked, crippled: Mat_15:30-31 ( WH , txt . om .); 2. maimed: Mat_18:8 , Mar_9:43 .†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

κυλλός [page 363] In P Lond 776 .10 (A.D. 552) (= III. p. 278) we read of a κυλλὴ κυκλάς ( crooked wheel ?) used for purposes of irrigation : the exact character of the machine is unknown. In Herodas Prooem. 4 (ed. Nairn p. 101) τ ]ὰ κυλλὰ ἀείδειν refers to the limping verse, the choliambic : cf. the use of χωλός in ib. i. 71 χωλὴν δ᾽ ἀείδειν χωλ᾽ ἂν ἐξεπαίδευσα , I d have taught her for her lame (vicious) advice to go limping away (Ed.), and the juxtaposition of the two adjectives in Mat_15:30 .

Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon

κυλλός κυλλός, ή, όν "crooked, crippled", properly of legs "bent outwards" by disease, Ar. :— ἔμβαλε κυλλῇ (sc. χειρί) "put into a crooked hand", i. e. "with" the fingers "crooked" like a beggar's, id=Ar.

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

κυλλός, -ή, -όν __1. crooked, crippled: Mat.15:30-31 (WH, txt. om.); __2. maimed: Mat.18:8, Mrk.9:43.† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (4)

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