G2948: κυλλός (kyllós)

G2948 κυλλός (kyllós)

Greek

Quick Definition

κυλλός, ή, όν Adj crippled, lame

Strong's Definition

from the same as 2947; rocking about, i.e. crippled (maimed, in feet or hands)

KJV Usage: maimed

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

κυλλός (G2948)

adjc. | -ή, -όν

23.176 · Physiological Processes and States · Sickness, Disease, Weakness

crippled pertaining to a disability in one or more limbs, especially the leg or foot, often as the result of some deformity

MAT 15:30 · MAT 15:31 · MAT 18:8 · MRK 9:43

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

κυλλός, -7, -όν, [akin to κύκλος, κυλίω, Lat. circus, curvus, ete.; Curtius § 81]; 1. crooked ; of the members of the body (Hippocr., Arstph. ay. 1379): as distinguished fr. χωλός, it seems to be injured or disabled in the hands {but doubted by many], Mt. xv. 30, 31 [but here Tr mrg. br. κυλ. and WH read it in mrg. only]. 2. maimed, mutilated, (ots, Hippocr. p. 805 [iii. p. 186 ed. Kiihn]): Mt. xviii. 8; Mk.‘ix. 48.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

κυλλός kyllos 4x

pr. crooked, bent, maimed, lame, crippled, Mt. 18:8; Mk. 9:43, used as a noun meaning cripple, Mt. 15:30ff.*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

* κυλλός, -ή, -όν, crooked, crippled: Mt 15:30, 31 (WH, txt. om.);

maimed: Mt 18:8, Mk 9:43.†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

κυλλός. In P Lond 77619 (Α.}. 552) (= III. p. 278) we read of a κυλλὴ κυκλάς (‘crooked wheel” ?) used for purposes of irrigation: the exact character of the machine is unknown. In Herodas Prooem. 4 (ed. Nairn p. 101) τ]ὰ κυλλὰ ἀείδειν refers to the ‘‘limping” verse, the ‘‘choliambic ”: cf. the use of χωλός in 2d. i. 71 χωλὴν δ᾽ ἀείδειν χωλ᾽ ἂν ἐξεπαίδευσα, “ΤᾺ have taught her for her lame (vicious) advice to go limping away” (Ed.), and the juxtaposition of the two adjectives in Mt 1580,

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

κυλλός (kullos) — crippled. κυλλ-ός, ή, όν, club-footed and bandy-legged, opposed to βλαισός, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; κ. πούς[Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. generally, deformed, contracted, κ. οὖς [Refs 5th c.BC+]; crippled in the arm, κ. ἠκόντιζεν ἀμείνονα [NT+1st c.AD+]; ἔμβαλε κυλλῇ (i.e. χειρί) put into a crooked hand, i.e. with the fingers crooked like a beggar's, to catch an alms, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. of things, crooked, κ. κυκλάς [Refs 6th c.AD+]

II. κυλλά, τά, choliambi, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]