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ζηλ-ωτής , οῦ, ὁ,
A.emulator, zealous admirer or follower, “μιμητὴς καὶ ζ. τῆς πατ ρῴας ἀρετῆς” Isoc.1.11; “ζ. καὶ ἐρασταὶ τῆς Λακεδαιμονίων παιδείας” Pl.Prt.343a; “τῆς ἡλικίας τοῦ μειρακίου” Aeschin.2.166; τῶν καλῶν βουλευμάτων ib.171; “τῆς αὐτῆς αἱρέσεως” SIG675.27 (Oropus, ii B.C.); “μαθήσεως” Phld.Rh.2.262S.; “πνευμάτων” 1 Ep.Cor.14.12; “τῶν ἀγαθῶν τῶν εἰς τὴν πόλιν μαρτυρουμένων” IG7.2712.99 (Acraephiae): c. gen. pers., “τοῦ Διός” Muson.Fr.8p.37H.; “τῶ πράτω θεῶ” Sthenid. ap. Stob.4.7.63 (nom.sg. ζηλωτάς codd.); Θουκυδίδου, Ἀντισθένους, Luc.Hist.Conscr.15, Herm.14; perh. champion, Epicur.Nat.70G.
2. jealous, θεὸς ζ. LXXEx.20.5.
II. zealot, used to translate Κανανίτης or Καναναῖος, Ev.Luc.6.15, Act.Ap.1.13, J.BJ4.3.9; “τῶν πατρίων ἐθῶν” Id.AJ12.6.2; “τῶν νόμων” LXX 2 Ma. 4.2.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (12):
    • Aeschines, On the Embassy, 166
    • Isocrates, To Demonicus, 11
    • Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities, 12.6.2
    • Flavius Josephus, The Jewish War, 4.3.9
    • New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 14.12
    • New Testament, Luke, 6.15
    • Plato, Protagoras, 343a
    • Old Testament, 2 Maccabees, 4.2
    • New Testament, Acts, 1.13
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 20.5
    • Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, 15
    • Lucian, Hermotimus, 14
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