Quick Definition
the finest wheaten flour
Strong's Definition
fine wheaten flour
Derivation: probably of foreign origin;
KJV Usage: fine flour
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σεμίδαλις, accusative σεμίδαλιν, ἡ, the finest wheaten flour: Rev_18:13. (Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Josephus, others; the Sept. often for λΙΜμΖϊ.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σεμίδαλις semidalis 1x
the finest flour, Rev_18:13
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
σεμίδαλις , -εως , ἡ ,
[in LXX chiefly for H5560 ;]
fine wheaten flour: Rev_18:13 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σεμίδαλις [page 572]
frequent in the LXX but in the NT confined to Rev_18:13 = fine wheaten flour (cf. Pliny HN xiii. 21 similago ex tritico fit laudatissimo ) : cf. P Oxy IV. 736 .82 ( c . A.D. 1) σεμιδάρεως ( l . σεμιδάλεως ) ξηρᾶς (ἡμιωβέλιον ), BGU IV. 1067 .15 (A.D. 102) σεμιδάλεω (ς ) ἀρτάβας τρεῖ [ς , and P Lond 190 .45 (list of provisions iii/A.D. ?) (= II. p. 255) σ [εμί ]δαλιν . For σεμιδαλίτης ἄρτος , fine wheaten bread, see P Petr III. 61 ( g ) .6 (iii/B.C.). Apparently σεμίδαλις , with Lat. simila of the same meaning, is borrowed from some Mediterranean tongue (Boisacq p. 859).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
σεμίδαλις σεμίδα_λις, ιος, ἡ, "the finest wheaten flour", Lat. simila, similago, Ar.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
σεμίδαλις, -εως, ἡ
[in LXX chiefly for סֹלֶת ;]
fine wheaten flour: Rev.18:13.†
(AS)