Quick Definition
a wolf, jackal
Strong's Definition
a wolf
Derivation: perhaps akin to the base of G3022 (λευκός) (from the whitish hair);
KJV Usage: wolf
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
λύκος, λυκου, ὁ, Hebrew ζΐΰΕα, a wolf: Mat_10:16; Luk_10:3; Joh_10:12; applied figuratively to cruel, greedy, rapacious, destructive men: Mat_7:15; Act_20:29; (used tropically, even in Homer, Iliad 4, 471; 16, 156; in the O. T., Eze_22:27; Zep_3:3; Jer_5:6).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
λύκος lykos 6x
a wolf, Mat_10:16 ; Luk_10:3 ; Joh_10:12 ;
met. a person of wolf-like character, Mat_7:15 ; Act_20:29
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
λύκος , -ου , ὁ ,
[in LXX for H2061 ;]
a wolf: Mat_10:16 , Luk_10:3 , Joh_10:12 ; fig . (as Eze_22:27 , Zep_3:3 , Jer_5:6 , al. ), Mat_7:1 , Act_20:29 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
λύκος [page 381]
P Par 6 .19 (B.C. 129) συνέβη δὲ καί , διὰ τὸ ἀχ [ανῆ ] τὴν θύραν ἀφεθῆν [αι , ὑπὸ ] λύκων λυμανθῆ [ναι ] ἀγαθὰ σώματα [περ ]ιβρωθέντα , and it also happened that, owing to the door having been left open, certain bodies in good condition were mangled by wolves, which have partly devoured them. The Latin (or rather Sabine) lupus is linked with λύκος , and points to an original *Luquos. MGr λύκος .
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
λύκος λύ^κος, ὁ, Lat. lupus, a wolf, Hom. ;—proverb., λύκον ἰδεῖν to see "a wolf", i. e. "to be struck dumb", as was vulgarly believed of any one of whom a wolf got the first look, Plat. , Theocr. (so Virg., "Moerim lupi videre priores);" λύκος οἶν ὑμεναιοῖ, of an impossibility, Ar.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
λύκος, -ου, ὁ
[in LXX for זְאֵב ;]
a wolf: Mat.10:16, Luk.10:3, Jhn.10:12; figuratively (as Eze.22:27, Zep.3:3, Jer.5:6, al.), Mat.7:1, Act.20:29.†
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