φρύγανον, φρυγανου, τό (from φρύγω or φρύσσω, φρύττω, to dry, parch; cf. Latin frigo, frux, fructus), a dry stick, dry twig; generally in the plural this word comprises all dry sticks, brush-wood, fire-wood, or similar material used as fuel: Act_28:3. (Herodotus 4, 62; Arstph, Thucydides, Xenophon, Philo, others; the Sept. for χΗωΡ, straw, stubble, Isa_40:24; Isa_41:2; Isa_47:14; for ηΘψεΜμ, bramble, Job_30:7.)

φρύγανον phryganon 1x a dry twig, branch, etc., Act_28:3

φρύγανον , -ου , τό ( < φρύγω , to parch ), [in LXX chiefly for H7179 , also for H2738 , etc.;] a dry stick: pl ., brushwood : Act_28:3 .†

φρύγανον [page 677] brushwood (Act. 28:3), as in P Cairo Zen III. 59517 .3 (iii/B.C.), wages to workmen εἰς συναγωγὴν φρυγάνων , for the gathering of brushwood. In Syll 568 (= .3 984) .6 (end of iv/B.C.) a priest undertakes μηδὲ [φ ]έρει (ν ) ξύλα μηδὲ κοῦρον ( branches with leaves ) μηδὲ φρύγανα μηδ [ὲ ] φυλλόβολα ( branches shedding leaves ) ἐκ τοῦ ἱεροῦ . For the new παραφρυγάνισμος , see P Petr II. 6 .11 ( c. B.C. 250), where Mahaffy lakes the meaning to be the piling of brushwood bound with clay to raise the banks of the canal. In his Introduction to the vol. p. 28 f. he supplies an interesting parallel from Wood s Sources of the Oxus , p. 22, where we are told that, when the river threatens to cut away its banks, the natives protect them with branches of tamarisk, in order to break the force of the water.

φρύγανον φρύ_γα^νον, ου, τό, [Etym: φρύγω] mostly in pl. "dry sticks, firewood", Lat. sarmenta, Hdt. , Ar. , etc.:—the sg. only in collective sense = τὰ φρύγανα, Ar.

φρύγανον, -ου, τό (φρύγω, to parch), [in LXX chiefly for קַשׁ, also for חָרוּל, etc. ;] a dry stick: pl., brushwood: Act.28:3.† (AS)