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ῥαβδ-ίον , τό, Dim. of ῥάβδος,
A.little rod or shoot, Thphr.HP3.17.6, Dsc.1.14; the wand of Hermes, Babr.117.9, Arr.Epict.3.20.12; ἀπὸ ῥαβδίου οἰακίζεσθαι, of horses, Str.17.3.7.
b. divining-rod, LXX Ez.21.21 (26)(cod. A).
2. barbel or filament appended to the lips of certain fishes, which are said “ῥαβδεύεσθαι τοῖς ἐν τῷ στόματι, ἃ καλοῦσιν οἱ ἁλιεῖς ῥαβδία” Arist.HA620b32.
3. iron stile, used in encaustic painting, Plu.2.568a, Ath.15.687b.
4. ῥαβδία ἀκοντίων perh. javelin shafts, BCH35.16 (Delian inventory).
5. teacher's pointer (or = ῥάβδος 1.7), Eudem. ap. Simp.in Ph.732.32.
II. = ἅλιμον, Ps.-Dsc.1.91.
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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    • Old Testament, Ezekiel, 21.21
    • Old Testament, Ezekiel, 26
    • Strabo, Geography, 17.3.7
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