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ἁλι-εύς (laterwritten
A.“ἁλεεύς” LXXIs.19.8, Ev.Matt.4.18, PFlor.127.15), ὁ, gen. έως, lon. ῆος, and contr. “ἁλιῶς” Pherecr.200: acc. pl. “ἁλιέας” Antiph.190.17, Alex.155.1; gen. “ἁλιέων” Id.76.5: (ἅλς, ἅλιος A):—one who has to do with the sea, and so,
1. fisher, Od.12.251, 22.384, Hdt.3.42, S.Fr.115, Pl.Ion539e, etc.: “ἀνὴρ ἁ.” Hes.Sc.214.
2. seaman, sailor, Od.24.419; ἐρέτας ἁλιῆας rowers on the sea, 16.349; as Adj., ἁλιεὺς στρατός Opp.H.5.121.
3. a fish, = βάτραχος, Arist.HA 620b12, Plu.2.978d, Paus.3.21.5.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Herodotus, Histories, 3.42
    • Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, 214
    • Homer, Odyssey, 12.251
    • Homer, Odyssey, 16.349
    • Homer, Odyssey, 22.384
    • Homer, Odyssey, 24.419
    • Homer, Odyssey, 5.121
    • Pausanias, Description of Greece, 3.21.5
    • Plato, Ion, 539e
    • Sophocles, Ichneutae, 115
    • Old Testament, Isaiah, 19.8
    • New Testament, Matthew, 4.18
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