Quick Definition
the ankle bone
Strong's Definition
compare the feminine , a hammer); the ankle (as globular)
Derivation: neuter of a presumed derivative probably of the same as (a ball, "sphere";
KJV Usage: ancle bone
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σφυρόν, σφυρου, τό, from Homer down, the ankle (A. V. anklebone): Act_3:7 (T WH σφυδρόν, which see).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
not given
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
*† σφυδρόν , -οῦ , τό ,
= σφυρόν ,
the ankle: Act_3:7 ( v. BL, § 6, 8).†
σφυρόν , -οῦ , τό ,
[in LXX : Job_41:21 ( H3857 ) * ;]
the ankle: Act_3:7 , Rec. ( T , WH , σφυδρόν ; v. Bl., § 6, 8).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σφυδρόν [page 618]
ankle-bone. New instances of this rare form (for σφυρόν ) in Act_3:7 ΰ * B* C* are cited by Cadbury ( JBL xlv. (1926), p. 200) from the iii/A.D. (?) palmomantic P Flor III. 391 .53, .56 . He rightly notes that probably neither the common nor the uncommon spelling is distinctly medical (contrast Hobart p. 35, Harnack Luke the Physician , P. 191).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
σφυρόν σφυ^ρόν, οῦ, "the ankle", Il. , attic metaph, "the foot" of a mountain, Pind. , Anth. ; also, Λιβύας ἄκρον σφυρόν the very "furthest part" of Libya, Theocr.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
σφυρόν, -οῦ, τό,
[in LXX: Job.41:21 (לָהַט) * ;]
the ankle: Act.3:7, Rec. (T, WH, σφυδρόν; see Bl., § 6, 8).†
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