Quick Definition
ἰκμάς, άδος, ἡ n.f. moisture
Strong's Definition
of uncertain affinity; dampness
KJV Usage: moisture
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ἱκμάς, -ados, ἡ, moisture: Lk. viii. 6. (Sept. Jer. xvii. 8; Hom. 1]. 17, 392; Joseph. antt. 3, 1, 3, and often in other auth.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἰκμάς ikmas 1x
moisture, Lk. 8:6*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἰκμάς, -άδος, ἡ,
[in LXX. Je 17:8 (יוּבַל), Jb 26:14 (שֶׁמֶץ)*;]
moisture: Lk 8:6.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἰκμάς. For the medical usage of this word, which in the NT is confined to Lk 8°, see Hobart p. 57 f., but contrast Cadbury Diction, p. 43, where it is shown that the word occurs in LXX, Joseph, Plut., Luc., and is, therefore, in no way the sole property of medical writers. ᾿]Ἰκόνιον. The old controversy as to whether during the Roman period Iconium belonged to Phrygia or Lycaonia may now be said to have been settled by the discovery of inscriptional evidence showing that during ii-iii/a.p. the inhabitants used the old non-literary Phrygian tongue : see especially Ramsay
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἰκμάς (ikmas) — moisture. ἰκμ-άς, άδος, ἡ, moisture, e.g. of oily leather, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἀνιεὶς ἐκ τοῦ σώματος ἰκμάδα, of a corpse exposed to the sun, [Refs 5th c.BC+] of moisture in the soil, [NT]; also θανόντων ἰσὶν οὐκ ἔνεστ᾽ ἰκμάς no blood, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of the bodily humours, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of all kinds of animal juices or moist secretions, τὸ περίττωμα τῆς ὑγρᾶς ἰ. ὃν καλοῦμεν ἱδρῶτα [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ τῶν καταμηνίων ἰ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἰ. Βάκχου, i.e. wine, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]