ἀλήθω

ἀλήθω — alḗthō

ἀλήθω; (a common Greek form for the Attic ἀλέω, cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 151); to grind: Mat 24:41; Luk 17:35. It was the custom to send women and female slaves to the mill-houses (?) to turn the hand-mills (Exo 11:5), who were called by the Greeks γυναῖκες, ἀλετρίδες (Homer, Odyssey 20, 105); (cf. B. D. under the word ).