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ἀμήτωρ

amētōrG:A

motherless

ἀμήτωρ, -ορος, ὁ, ἡ (μήτηρ), without a mother (frequently in Gk. writers of the gods): ἀπάτωρ ἀ. of one without recorded genealogy, Heb.7:3 (cf. MM, VGT, see word) (AS)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

ἀμήτωρ — amḗtōr

ἀμήτωρ, (ορος, ὁ, ἡ (μήτηρ), without a mother, motherless; in Greek writings:

1. born without a mother, e. g. Minerva, Euripides, Phoen. 666f, others; God himself, inasmuch as he is without origin, Lactantius, instt. 4, 13, 2.

2. bereft of a mother, Herodotus 4, 154, elsewhere.

3. born of a base or unknown mother, Euripides, Ion 109 cf. 837.

4. unmotherly, unworthy of the name of mother: μήτηρ ἀμήτωρ, Sophocles El. 1154. Cf. Bleek on Heb. vol. ii., 2, p. 305ff

5. in a significance unused by the Greeks, 'whose mother is not recorded in the genealogy': of Melchizedek, Heb 7:3; (of Sarah by Philo in de temul. § 14, and rer. div. haer. § 12; (cf. Bleek as above)); cf. the classic ἀνολυμπιάς.

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