Quick Definition
the jawbone, cheek
Strong's Definition
the jaw-bone, i.e. (by implication) the cheek or side of the face
Derivation: of uncertain derivation;
KJV Usage: cheek
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
σιαγών, σιαγόνος, ἡ, the jaw, the jaw-bone (A. V. cheek): Mat_5:39; Luk_6:29. (Sophicles, Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, others; the Sept. for μΐηΔι.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
σιαγών siagōn 2x
the jawbone; in NT the cheek, Mat_5:39 ; Luk_6:29
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
σιαγών , -όνος , ἡ ,
[in LXX for H3895 ;]
the jawbone, jaw, cheek: Mat_5:39 , Luk_6:29 ( cf. MM , xxii).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
σιαγών [page 573]
a cheek. That this word, a specialty of Q ( Mat_5:39 , Luk_6:29 ), is not of learned origin is shown by such passages as P Cairo Zen I. 59076 .12 f. (B.C. 257) σιαγόνες μείζους καὶ φακοὶ ἐπὶ σιαγόνι δεξιᾶι , P Lond 909 a .7 (A.D. 136) (= III. p. 170) ὁμολογῶ πε [π ]ρακέν̣ε σοι κα̣μ̣ηλον ἄρσηνον ( l . ἄρρενα ) . . . κεχ̣αρ̣ακμένον τεξιὰν σιακόν̣ην̣ ( l . σιαγόνα ) ταῦ ἄλφα , I acknowledge to have sold to you a male camel branded T.A. on its right cheek, P Ryl II. 88 .28 (A.D. 156) οὐλὴ σεαγό (νι ) ἀριστ (ερᾷ ), and ib . 63 .9 (astrological iii/A.D.) Π ]αρθένου σιαγὼν ὀσφύες , the cheek and the loins to Virgo. A form συαγών occurs in BGU I. 100 .5 (A.D. 159).
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
σιαγών σια_γών, ionic σιηγών, όνος, ἡ, "the jawbone, jaw", Soph. [Etym: deriv. uncertain]
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
σιαγών, -όνος, ἡ
[in LXX for לְחִי ;]
the jawbone, jaw, cheek: Mat.5:39, Luk.6:29 (cf. MM, xxii).†
(AS)