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στερέ-ωμα , ατος, τό,
A.solid body, Hp.Flat.8, Anaxag. ap. Placit.2.25.9.
b. ἄϋλα ς. immaterial solids, Dam.Pr.425, cf. 205.
2. foundation or framework, e.g. the skeleton, on which the body is, as it were, built, Arist.PA655a22; στερεώματος ἕνεκα τοῦ περιτρήτου to strengthen it, Hero Bel.95.8: metaph., solid part, strength of an army, LXX 1 Ma.9.14; also, ratification, ἐπιστολῆς ib.Es.9.29; steadfastness, “τῆς πίστεως” Ep.Col.2.5.
3. = στεῖρα (of a ship), Thphr. HP5.7.3.
4. firmament, i.e. the sky, the heaven above, LXX Ge. 1.6, Ez.1.22, al.; “τὸν τῶν οὐρανίων ς. δεσπότην” Tab.Defix.Aud.242.8 (Carthage, iii A.D.).
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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