The corpus record

ῥᾰφίς

raphis · ἡ

needle, garfish, Belone acus

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Where it lives

Mark 1 · 0.91/10k
Matthew 1 · 0.56/10k

What it meant — LSJ

needle

needle, Hp. Morb. 2.66 (where Gal. 19.134 read ῥαφίῳ, al. γραφίσι), Archipp. 38, Ph. Bel. 61.14, Hero Bel. 109.1 (ῥανίδα codd.), AP 11.110 (Nicarch.), Hermes 38.283; διὰ τρυπήματος (v.l. τρήματος) ῥαφίδος διελθεῖν (v.l. εἰσελθεῖν) Ev.Matt. 19.24:—in Att. replaced by βελόνη, Phryn. 72.

II garfish, Belone acus

garfish, Belone acus, Epich. l.c., Arist. Fr. 294, Opp. H. 1.172, C. 2.392.

In the wild

ῥαφίδος · rhaphidos New Testament, Mark 10.25 (DIORISIS sentence 446)
ῥαφίδος · rhaphidos New Testament, Matthew 19.24 (DIORISIS sentence 791)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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