Quick Definition
ἵππος, ου, ὁ n.m. a horse
Strong's Definition
of uncertain affinity; a horse
KJV Usage: horse
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, m. | -ου | ἱππεύς · ἱππικόν
4.29 · Animals · Animals
horse large domesticated solid-hoofed quadruped; Equus caballus; stockily built in comparison to today’s horses, with shorter heads and thicker necks; about 122–142 cm tall, and 2.1 m long; coat varies from dark to pale brown; eats plants; used in battle, both to ride and for pulling chariots; symbolic of military might; associated with the sun, which was said to ride across the sky in a chariot Since horses are widely distributed in the world (at least knowledge about them is widespread), it is rarely difficult to obtain a satisfactory term. In some instances, however, expressions designating horses may seem rather strange. For example, in Sediq, a language spoken in Taiwan, a horse is literally ‘a soldier’s cow.’
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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ἵππος hippos 17x
a horse, Jas. 3:3; Rev. 6:2, 4, 5, 8; 9:7, 17; 18:13; 19:11, 14
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ἵππος, -ου, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for סוּס, sometimes for פָּרָשׁ, רֶכֶב;]
a horse: Ja 3:3, Re 6:2 ff. Re 9:7 ff. Re 14:20 18:13 19:11 ff.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ἵππος. In P Petr I. 111° a cavalry officer bequeaths to a friend— τὸν ἵππον καὶ τὰ ὅπλα : cf. 16. 121°. See also P Tebt I. 208 (B.C. 95) πορείοις καὶ ἵπποις εἰς Τ]εβτῦνιν, and BGU II. 6651. (i/a.D.) ἀηδῶς δὲ ἔσχον περὶ τοῦ ἵππου. A horse is included in the salutations of P Oxy XIV. 1772? (late iii/a.D.) ἄσπ]ασαι πολλὰ τὴν ἀγαθήν σου σύμβιον Kal ᾿Ιουλίαν καὶ τὸν ἵππον καὶ [Τίβ]εριν. For the fem. = “mare” see P Grenf I. 435 (ii/B-c.) τὴν ἵππον, PSI IV. 3778 (B.C. 250-49) τὰς ἵππους Ὗ ἐπιτόκους παρέξω : but cf. ἐδ. I. 39° (A.D. 148) τυγχάνω ἠγορακέναι ἵπον (1. ἵππον) θήλειαν παρὰ Διοσκύρου, and P Fay 301 (A.D. 167), a contract for the sale of two horses—@ndelas σιτοχρόους (Sof the colour of ripe wheat”). See Mayser G7. p. 261, and on the use of horses in Egypt see P Hamb I. p. 31. Zotc. This subst. in its derived sense of the white iris plant, from whose aromatic root the orris-root of commerce is produced, occurs in P Tebt 11. 414" (ii/a.D.) ἐὰν κομψῶς σχῶ (cf. Jn 452) πέμψω [τ]ῇ θυγατρί σου κοτύλην ἴρις (/. tpews), “if my health is good I will send a cotyle of orris-root for your daughter ” (Edd.). ᾿]σαάκ. See s.v. Ιακώβ, and cf. the sepulchral inser. Prezsigke 203411 ἀνάπαυσον τὴν ψυχὴν τοῖς δούλοις σου πιστὰ ἐν κόλποις ᾿Αβρὰμ καὶ ᾿Ισὰκ καὶ ᾿Ιακώβ, similarly 73. 39017. In P Amh II. 1435 (iv/A.D.) the writer exclaims—elmov γὰρ τῷ Ἰσάκ, δῖ κέρμα, καὶ λέγι, οὐκ ἔχω, “1 said to Isaac, “1 want money,’ and he said ‘I have none’” (Edd.). For other exx. of the spelling Ἴσάκ (as frequently in Cod. Sin.) see BS p. 189, and add gen. ᾿Ισακέως in BGU III. 715% 9 (A.D. 101-2). Fora form Hiodk, see Pretsigke 1156 εὐχὴ *TovAtavot, Hicak, ᾿Αββιβοῦ εὐλογητοῦ.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ἵππος (hippos) — horse. ἵππος, ὁ, horse, ἡ, mare, most frequently feminine in Poets; in full θήλεες ἵπποι [Refs 8th c.BC+] team of chariot-horses, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence, of the chariot itself, ἀφ᾽ ἵπποιιν, ἀφ᾽ ἵππων, from the chariot, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἵππων ἐπιβησόμενος intending to mount his chariot, [Refs]; opposed to πεζοί, πλῆτο δὲ πᾶν πεδίον πεζῶν τε καὶ ἵππων [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of riders, νῶθ᾽ ἵππων ἐπιβάντες ἐθύνεον [Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently of race-horses, ἵ. ἀκαμαντόποδες [Refs 5th c.BC+]., of ships, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
2. the constellation [Refs 4th c.BC+]
3. title of Hecate in the Mithraic cult, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
4. perhaps an instrument of torture, Latin eculeus, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
II. as Collective Noun, ἵππος, ἡ, horse, cavalry, ἡ τῶν Θεσσαλῶν ἵ. [Refs 5th c.BC+] a thousand horse, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ διακοσία ἵ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. a sea-fish, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but ὁ ἵ. ὁ ποτάμιος the hippopotamus, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
IV. lewd woman, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
IV. b pudenda muliebria et virilia, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
V. a complaint of the eyes, such that they are always winking, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
VI. title of ministrants ('chuckersout') in certain religious ceremonies, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
VII. in compounds, to express anything large or coarse, as in our horse-chestnut, horse-laugh, see at {ἱππό-κρημνος}, -λάπαθον, -μάραθον, -πορνος, -σέλινον, -τυφία, and compare βου-. (From ἴκϝος, see at {ἴκκος}; cf. Sanskrit aśvas, Latin equus: the ἴ- (in place of e-) and the aspirate are unexplained; the latter accusative to [Refs 2nd c.AD+] was confined to Attic; compare Λεύκ-ιππος, Γλαύκ-ιππος.)