ἀρήν, ὁ, nominative not in use; the other cases are by syncope ἀρνός (for ἀρενος), ἀρνί, ἄρνα, plural ἄρνες, ἀρνῶν, ἄρνασι, ἄρνας, a sheep, a lamb: Luk_10:3. (Gen_30:32; Exo_23:19, etc.; in Greek writings from Homer down.) STRONGS NT 704: ἄρναςἄρνας, see ἀρήν.

ἀρήν arēn 1x a sheep, lamb, Luk_10:3

ἀρήν , ἀρνός , ὁ ( nom , not in use, exc . in early times: v. MM , s.v. ), [in LXX for H4806 , H3532 , etc.;] a lamb: Luk_10:3 .† ἄρνας , see ἀρήν .

ἀρήν [page 76] Of the nominative of this word ( ϝαρήν , declined according to the primitive model still normal in Sanskrit, and traced in κύων κυνός , caro carnis , etc.), we have no occurrences except in early times (Attic, Coan and Cretan inscriptions) : see Searles, Lexicographical Study (Chicago, 1898), p. 21. The oblique cases, although there is only one occurrence in the NT ( Luk_10:8 ἄρνας ) are by no means obsolete in the Κοινή : thus ἀ̣ρ̣νός P Tebt I. 117 .85 (B.C. 99), and even P Lond 125 verso .2 (magical, v/A.D.) (= I. p. 123) αἵματι ἀ [ρ ]νὸς μέλανος ; ἄρνες P Hib I. 32 .11 (B.C. 246); ἄρν (ασι ) P Amh II. 73 .5 (A.D. 129 30); ἄρνας BGU I. 133 .8 (ii/A.D.), PSI 40 .3 (A.D. 129), P Oxy I. 74 .2 etc. (A.D. 116); PSI 56 .8 (A.D. 107) ἄρνες , and so P Hawara 322 .6 (Antoninus) (in Archiv v. p. 394). Mayser s instance from P Magd 21 .4 must be dropped : see the new edition. Kaibel 1038 .38 (Attalia, an oracle of Cybele) ὡ ]ς ἄρνα [ς ] κα [τ ]έχουσι λύκοι : cf. Luk_10:3 . The replacing of this irregular noun by the only formally diminutive ἀρνίον is normal. The distinction in use between this word and ἀμνός seems beyond our power to trace : van Herwerden ( s.v. ἀρήν ) cites a grammarian who makes this a lamb less than a year old, ἀμνός one over a year.

ἀρήν, ἀρνός, ὁ (nom, not in use, exc. in early times: see MM, see word), [in LXX for מְרִיא, כֶּבֶשׂ, etc. ;] a lamb: Luk.10:3.† (AS)