μάρμαρος, μαρμάρου, ὁ, ἡ (μαρμαίρω to sparkle, glisten); 1. a stone, rock (Homer, Euripides). 2. marble ((cf. Epistle Jer. ), Theophrastus, Strabo, others): Rev_18:12.

μάρμαρος marmaros 1x a white glistening stone; marble, Rev_18:12

** μάρμαρος , -ου , ὁ ( < μαρμαίρω , to glisten ), [in LXX : Ep. Jer_7:2 * ;] 1. any crystalline stone ( Hom ., Eur ., al. ). 2. In later writers, marble: Rev_18:12 .†

μάρμαρος [page 389] This word, which in the NT is confined to Rev_18:12 , occurs in P Leid X x. 12 (iii/iv A.D.) (= II. p. 231) ποιεῖ δὲ οὐ μόνον ἐπὶ χάρτου ἢ διφθέρας , ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπὶ μαρμάρου ἐστιλβωμένου , with reference to χρυσογραφία , writing in letters of gold. For the adj. μαρμάρινος cf. the Mytilenean decree Cagnat IV. 45 .14 ἐνχαράχθην ἐς στάλλαν μαρμαρίναν , and for μαρμαράριος , a marble-mason cf. kaibel 920 ii. 7 (time of Severus) μαρμαραρίων τὸ γένος σῶζε , Σέραπι . Boisacq (p. 611) points out that the primary meaning was boulder, block of rock, as in Horn. Il. xii. 380, the meaning marble being due to the influence of μαρμαίρω , μαρμάρεος , which are not related to μάρμαρος . He connects with μάρναμαι in its original sense of break, crush, and compares the formation of rupes from rumpo .

μάρμαρος μάρμα^ρος, ου, any "stone or rock" of crystalline structure, which sparkles (μαρμαίρει) in the light, Hom. , etc.; also, πέτρος μάρμαρος Il. "marble", Strab. : — "a marble tombstone", Theocr.

μάρμαρος, -ου, ὁ (μαρμαίρω, to glisten), [in LXX: Ep. Jer.7:2 * ;] __1. any crystalline stone (Hom., Eur., al.). __2. In later writers, marble: Rev.18:12.† (AS)