μεριστής, -ov, ὁ, (μερίζω), a divider: of an inheritance, Lk. xii. 14. (Pollux [4, 176].)

μεριστής meristēs 1x

a divider, arbitrator, Lk. 12:14*

*† μεριστής, -οῦ, ὁ

(< μερίζω),

a divider: Lk 12:14.†

μεριστής. In P Leid ψ σιν. 2 (ii/iii A.D.) (= II. p. 131) μεριστής is See also Vett. Val. p. 624 6 κύριος τοῦ ὡροσκόπου ἐπιτόπως | κείμενος ἢ ἰδίας αἱρέσεως μεριστὴς χρόνων ζωῆς γίνεται. Earlier | exx. are P Petr III. 32(7)$ (Ptol.) a memorandum in con- | nexion with the police tax on associations and factories τῆς Θεμίστου μερίδος, ‘in the division of Themistes,’’ and BGU III. 9758 (A.D. 45) (= Selections, p: 42) a deed of divorce | entered into ἐν τῇ Σοκνοπαίου Νήσου τῆς Ἡρακλίδου μερίδος τοῦ ᾿Αρστι]νοείτου νομοῦ, “at Socnopaei Nesus of the Heraclides district of the Arsinoite nome.”’ The word is also very common in the sense of “" portion,” ‘* share,” as in Lk 10 a/., e.g. P Lond 88018# (p.c. 113) (= III. p- 9) a document in which a man executes a division of his landed property—ITavoBxotve: μὲν τῶι πρεσβυτέρωι vidi αὐτοῦ μερίδας δύο... ταῖς ἑαυτοῦ θυγατράσιν μερίδα μίαν, and P Oxy XII. 1482 (ii/a.p.) ἐν τῷ δὲ τόπῳ τοῦ πατρός σου ἀποτέθεικα τὴν μερίδαν μου, “I have stored my share (of barley) in the room belonging to your father” (Edd.). For μερίς as a portion of food, cf. Gen 4338 ΑΔ, and the classical exx. in Wetstein ad Lk 104: see also Field Motes, Ρ. 64, and add Vett. Val. p. 3451° εἰ δέ τις τῶν κεκλημένων ἐθέλοι

μεριστής (meristēs) — arbiter. μερ-ιστής, οῦ, ὁ, divider, distributor, [NT+2nd c.AD+]; μ. χρόνων ζωῆς, of the lord of the horoscope, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—feminine μερ-ίστρια, [Refs 4th c.BC+]