μαργαρίτης

μαργαρίτης — margarítēs

μαργαρίτης, μαργαρίτου, ὁ, a pearl: Mat 13:45; 1Ti 2:9; Rev 17:4; Rev 18:1-24 :,; (here L T WH accent μαργαρῖται, R G Tr μαργαρῖται (cf. Tdf. Proleg., p. 101)); τούς μαργαρίτας βάλλειν ἔμπροσθεν χοίρων, a proverb, i. e. to thrust the most sacred and precious teachings of the gospel upon the most wicked and abandoned men (incompetent as they are, through their hostility to the gospel, to receive them), and thus to profane them, Mat 7:6 (cf. Pro 3:15; Job 28:18 f).