The corpus record

μόδιος

modios · ὁ

vessel of this capacity

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Where it lives

Mark 1 · 0.91/10k
Matthew 1 · 0.56/10k
Luke 1 · 0.52/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k

What it meant

μόδιος · modios — LSJ

= Lat. modius, a dry measure, = 1/6 μέδιμνος, for which it is f.l. in Din. 1.43, cf. OGI 533.30 (i B. C.), Plu. Demetr. 33.

2 vessel of this capacity

vessel of this capacity, Ev.Matt. 5.15.

a measure of length, = 200 ὀργυιαί, Hero *Geom. 4.12.

In the wild

μόδιος · modios Epictetus, Discourses 1.17 (DIORISIS sentence 832)
μόδιος · modios Epictetus, Discourses 1.17 (DIORISIS sentence 828)
μόδιον · modion New Testament, Luke 11.33 (DIORISIS sentence 616)
μόδιον · modion New Testament, Mark 4.21 (DIORISIS sentence 138)
μόδιον · modion New Testament, Matthew 5.15 (DIORISIS sentence 100)

Where it came from

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