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G695 ἀργυροκόπος (argyrokópos)
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ἀργυροκόπος, ου, ὁ n.m. a silversmith

Strong's Definition

from 696 and 2875; a beater (i.e. worker) of silver

KJV Usage: silversmith

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

noun, m. | -ου | ἄργυρος + κόπτω

2.52 · Natural Substances · Metals

silversmith one who makes objects out of silver (especially jewelry and fine utensils)

ACT 19:24

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

ἀργυροκόπος, -ov, 6, (ἄργυρος and κόπτω to beat, hammer; a silver-beater), a silversmith: Acts xix. 24. (Judg. xvii. 4; Jer. vi. 29. Plut. de vitand. aere alien. ce. 7.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

ἀργυροκόπος argyrokopos 1x

a forger of silver, silversmith, Acts 19:24*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

† ἀργυροκόπος, -ου, ὁ

(< ἄργυρος, κόπτω, to beat), [in LXX: Jg 17:4, Je 6:29 (צֹרֵף)*;]

a silversmith: Ac 19:24 (Plut.; π., v. MM, s.v.).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

ἀργυροκόπος. For this designation in Ac το 2" (cf. LXX Jud 174, Jer 639) ΟἹ Demetrius, who was probably master of the guild for the year, see Ramsay Ολ᾽ 85, p. 128, and cf. an order of payment of early i/A.D. published by Milne amongst the Hawara Papyri, Archiv v. p. 382, no. 68, χρημάτισο(ν) "A [.. ] ᾿Απολλωνίου ἀργυροκ[όπῳ], and BGU III. 781*¥-® (i/a.p.) ἄλλα (sc. πινάκια) ὠτία μὴ ἔχοντα, κατασκενασθέντα ἐν ᾿Αρσινοίτηι διὰ ᾿Απολλωνίου ἀργ[υρο]κόπου, P Giss I. 47% (Hadrian) Διονυσζου τοῦ ἀργυροκόπου. P Flor I. γι" 59, P Oxy VIII. 114612, P Lond ο83} (ΞΞ III. p. 229) (all iv/A.p.), and Sy// 8731 (ἢ συνεργασία τῶν ἀργυροκόπων καὶ χρυσοχόων) also show it. For ἀργυροκοπεῖον see C/A 11. 476°° (c. B.C. 100).

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

ἀργυροκόπος (argurokopos) — silversmith. ἀργῠρο-κόπος, ὁ, (κόπτω) coiner, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II. silversmith, [NT+1st c.AD+]

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