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διαστολ-ή , ἡ, (διαστέλλω)
A.drawing asunder, dilatation, of the lungs, Arist.Aud.800a35; of the heart, Gal.2.597; of the pulse, Id.8.736, al.; δ. χειλέων parting of the lips, i.e. utterance, LXX Nu.30.7.
b. separation, Thphr.CP3.16.3; notch or nick, Plu.Cic.1; boundary, fence, Tab.Heracl.2.46; fencing off, “τῆς γῆς” PAmh.2.40.25 (ii B. C.).
2. distinction, Chrysipp.Stoic.2.158, LXX Ex.8.23, Epicur.Nat.28.7, Phld.Piet.123, Ep.Rom.3.22; “ἁγίων καὶ βεβήλων” Ph.2.159; μετὰ διαστολῆς προενεχθέντα with discrimination, Demetr.Lac.1014.48 F.; detailed statement or explanation, Plb.1.15.6; “ἀξίους μνήμης καὶ δ.” Id.16.14.2, cf. SIG284.11 (Chios), Apollon.Cit.3; specification of items in an account, PRyl.65.17 (i B. C.); article in a contract, etc., PTheb.Bank6.8, 7.7.
3. command, injunction, order, LXX Nu.19.2, al., PTeb.24.45 (ii B.C.), etc.
4. payment, BGU485.26, PTeb.363.1(ii A. D.).
II. Gramm., comma (as in ὅ, τι), D.T.629.
b. distinction, “γενῶν” A.D.Pron.11.28,al.
c. opposition, πρός τι ib.41.24.
2. in Music, distinctness, of notes, 1 Ep.Cor.14.7.
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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    • New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 14.7
    • New Testament, Romans, 3.22
    • Polybius, Histories, 16.14.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 1.15.6
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 8.23
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    • Plutarch, Cicero, 1
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