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χύμα [υ^], ατος, τό,
A.that which is poured out or flows, fluid, Arist. HA550b27, D.S.17.75; even “χ. νιφάδος” Alciphr.1.23; χ. τέσσαρα, viz. the hot, cold, moist, and dry, Ptol.Tetr.19.
2. ingot, bar, IG7.303.104 (Orop., iii B. C.); “χ. χρυσοῦν” Inscr.Délos442 B6 (ii B. C.), [χρυσίου] ib.1432Abi17 (Delos, ii B. C., pl.), cf. Agatharch.28.
3. metaph., confused mass, “τῶν ἀριθμῶν” LXX 2 Ma.2.24; aggregate, Theol.Ar.34; crowd, πρεσβυτέρων καὶ νεωτέρων Aristeas14.
4. “αὐτὰ τὰ χ. τῶν σφαιρῶν” materials, constituents, Phlp. in Mete.26.8; τοῦ χ. αὐτοῦ τῶν σφαιρῶν ἡ οὐσία ib.4.2.
5. χ. καρδίας largeness of heart, LXX 3 Ki.4.25（5.9). [On accent and quantity v. Hdn.Gr.2.15.]
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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    • Diodorus, Historical Library, 17.75
    • Old Testament, 1 Kings, 2.15
    • Old Testament, 1 Kings, 4.25
    • Old Testament, 1 Kings, 5.9
    • Old Testament, 2 Maccabees, 2.24
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