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περιρραντήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: περιρραντήριον περιρραντήριου

Structure: περιρραντηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from perirrai/nw

Sense

  1. an utensil for besprinkling, a vessel for lustral water
  2. the parts, sprinkled with lustral water

Examples

  • καὶ ἄλλα ἐν τῇ Ἀθηναίων ἀκροπόλει θεασάμενοσ οἶδα, Λυκίου τοῦ Μύρωνοσ χαλκοῦν παῖδα, ὃσ τὸ περιρραντήριον ἔχει, καὶ Μύρωνοσ Περσέα τὸ ἐσ Μέδουσαν ἔργον εἰργασμένον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 23 11:1)
  • ἐντὸσ δὲ τῶν πυλῶν περιρραντήριον ἦν χάλκεον ὁμοίαν αὐτῷ καὶ τὴν κρηπῖδα παρεχόμενον, ἐξ οὗ τοῖσ ἱερεῦσι τὰσ χεῖρασ ἀποπλύνειν καὶ τῶν ποδῶν καταχεῖν παρῆν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 145:1)

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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