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προσκολλ-άω ,
A.glue on or to, “τι πρός τι” Hp.Art.33:—Pass., generally, to be stuck to, stick or cleave to, Pl.Phd.82e, Lg.728b; ὑπὸ “τοῦ αἵματος προσκολληθῆναι τὴν ῥομφαίαν αὐτοῦ τῇ δεξιᾷ” J.AJ7.12.4; of a snail, τοῖς θαμνίσκοις π. Dsc.2.9; of a husband, “π. τῇ γυναικί” Ev.Matt.19.5, cf. LXX Ge.2.24, Ev.Marc.10.7, Ep.Eph.5.31; “τοῖς ἐπαοιδοῖς” LXX Le.19.31; “ψυχαὶ π. θεῷ” Ph.Fr.51 H.
II. intr. of style, to be compact, D.H.Dem.43.
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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    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 7.12.4
    • New Testament, Mark, 10.7
    • New Testament, Matthew, 19.5
    • Old Testament, Leviticus, 19.31
    • Plato, Laws, 728b
    • Plato, Phaedo, 82e
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 33
    • New Testament, Ephesians, 5.31
    • Old Testament, Genesis, 2.24
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Demosthene, 43
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