BIBLE DICTIONARY + WORD STUDY
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GREEK · G2438
himas — leather strap
ἱμάς, -άντος, ὁ [in LXX: Isa.5:27 (שְׂרוֹךְ), Sir.33:26, 4Ma.9:11, al ;] a thong, strap: for binding prisoners (Ma, Sir, ll. with), Act.22:25; for fastening sandals, Mk, Luk.3:16, Jhn.1:27.† (AS)
4 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →GREEK · G9580
hupoluō — to untie
1. to loosen beneath or below , ὑπέλυσε γυῖα made his limbs give way under him , (Iliad by Homer):—;Pass., γυῖα ὑπέλυντο (Iliad by Homer) 2. to loose from under the yoke, (Homer):—; to loose from bonds , (Odyssey by Homer); in Mid., τὸν ὑπελύσαο δεσμῶν thou didst free him from bonds by stealth , (Iliad by Homer) 3. to untie a person's sandals from under his feet, take off his shoes, (Aeschulus Tragicus):—;Mid. to take off one's sandals or shoes, or to have them taken off , (Aristophanes Comicus) 4. with accusative pers. to unshoe him, take off his shoes , (Plato Philosophus) (ML)
0 tagged verse occurrences · see every occurrence →Mentioned only in Mark 6:9 and Acts 12:8. The sandal was simply a sole, made of wood or palm-bark, fastened to the foot by leathern straps. Sandals were also made of seal-skin (Ezek. 16:10; lit. tahash, “leather;” A.V., “badger’s skin;” R.V., “sealskin,” or marg., “porpoise-skin”). (See SHOE.)
Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.
