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ἀφαίρ-εμα , ατος, τό,
A.that which is taken away as the choice part, LXX Ex.35.21, Nu.18.27sq., al., J.AJ14.10.12.
2. tribute, LXX 1 Ma.15.5.
3. deduction, POxy.1731.10 (ii A. D.).
4. coarse grits made from ζέα, Plin.HN18.112.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (4):
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 14.10.12
    • Old Testament, 1 Maccabees, 15.5
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 35.21
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 18.112
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