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ὑποζώννῡμι

upozonnumi

undergird, the pleura, membranes

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Where it lives

Psalmi Salomonis 1 · 2.1/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ὑποζώννῡμι · hypozōnnymi — LSJ

undergird, the pleura, membranes, lining, girt, girt up

undergird, τοὺς ἵππους ῥυτῆρσι Plu. Eum. 11; ὑ. τινὰ τοῖς ποσσίν AP 12.222 (Strat.); ὁ ὑπεζωκὼς τὰς πλευράς (sc. ὑμήν), or abs. ὁ ὑπεζωκώς, the pleura, Alex.Aphr. Pr. 1.53, Gal. 2.591 (ὑμήν is expressed in Diocl. Fr. 64, Antyll. ap. Orib. 44.23.45, Orac.Chald. ap. Dam. Pr. 265); ὑπεζωκότες foetal membranes, Sor. 1.58; lining of the intestines, Orib. Fr. 58:—Pass., esp. in pf. part., ζειρὰς ὑπεζωμένοι (v.l. -ζωσμ-) girt with ζειραί (q. v.), Hdt. 7.69; ὑπεζωσμένοι ἱμάντας Plu. Rom. 26: abs., ὑπεζω

II brace

brace a ship, so as to make her seaworthy (cf. ὑπόζωμα II), IG l.c., Plb. l.c., Act.Ap. 27.17; ὑπέζωται IG 2(2).1621.68.

III come to manʼs estate

ὑπεζῶσθαι· τὸ εἰς ἄνδρας ἐλθεῖν, Φιλητᾶς, Hsch. (prob. = come to manʼs estate).

In the wild

ὑπεζωσμένοι · hypezōsmenoi Herodotus, Histories 7.69.1 (DIORISIS sentence 7497)
ὑπεζωσμένος · hypezōsmenos Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 11.28.1 (DIORISIS sentence 1965)
ὑποζωννύντες · hypozōnnyntes New Testament, Acts 27.16 (DIORISIS sentence 908)
ὑπεζωσμέναι · hypezōsmenai Septuaginta, Machabaeorum II 3
ὑπόζωσον · hypozōson Septuaginta, Psalmi Salomonis 17 Ψαλμὸς τῷ Σαλωμων μετὰ ᾠδῆς· τῷ βασιλεῖ. (DIORISIS sentence 199)

Where it came from

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