Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon, ῥιπή

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1.the swing or force with which anything is thrown, Lat. impetus, αἰγανέης ῥιπή the flight of a javelin, Il.; ῥιπὴ Βορέαο the sweep or rush of the N. wind, id=Il.; ῥιπὴ Διόθεν, of a storm, Aesch.; ἐννυχιᾶν ἀπὸ ῥιπᾶν prob. means from the quarter of the night storms, i.e. from the North, Soph.; ῥ. πυρός the rush of fire, Il.

2.ῥ. πτερύγων a flapping of wings, Aesch.; of the buzz of a gnat's wing, id=Aesch.; of quivering light, ῥιπαὶ ἄστρων Soph.; of any rapid movement, ῥ. ποδῶν Eur.; ἐν ῥιπῇ ὀφθαλμοῦ in the twinkling of an eye, NTest.

1 ῥι_πή, ἡ,

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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