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ὑπόδειγ-μα , ατος, τό,
A.sign, token, indication, v. l. in X.Eq.2.2 (pl.); “φιλαγαθίας” IG22.1011.81.
2. illustration, picture showing how something is to be done, Apollon.Cit.2,3.
II. pattern, Plb.3.17.8; “μετανοίας” LXX Si.44.16, cf. 2 Ma.6.28; “ὑ. καὶ σκιά” Ep.Hebr.8.5, cf. 9.23; “τὸ ὑ. τοῦ οἴκου” LXX Ez.42.15: in Inscrr., “πρὸς ὑπόδειγμα ἀρετῆς” CIG2769,2774,2775d (add.), al. (Aphrodisias); “καλὸν ὑ. τῆς ἰδίας προαιρέσεως καταβαλλόμενος” BMus.Inscr.925b22 (Branchidae, i B. C.): but also “ὑ. ἀπειθίας” BGU747 ii 14 (ii A. D.); “ὑ. μελλόντων ἀσεβεῖν” 2 Ep.Pet.2.6.
III. example, instance, AP6.342, Ph.Bel.69.10, D.H. Comp.17, Hp.Ep.17, Herm. in Phdr.p.185 A.; “ὑποδείγματος χάριν” Nicom.Ar.1.8; specimen, BGU1141.43 (i B. C.), etc.: pl., Phld.Rh. 1.8 S., al.:—rejected as less correct than παράδειγμα by the Atticists, Phryn.4.
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 (9):
    • Old Testament, Ezekiel, 42.15
    • New Testament, 2 Peter, 2.6
    • Xenophon, On the Art of Horsemanship, 2.2
    • Polybius, Histories, 3.17.8
    • Old Testament, 2 Maccabees, 6.28
    • New Testament, Hebrews, 8.5
    • New Testament, Hebrews, 9.23
    • Old Testament, Ecclesiasticus, 44.16
    • Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, 17
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