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|txtha=δόματος, τό ([[δίδωμι]]), a [[gift]]: [[Plato]], def., p. 415b.; [[Plutarch]]; [[often]] in the Sept., [[chiefly]] for מַתָּנָה) Cf. Fritzsche on Matthew , p. 291 f ([[who]] quotes [[Varro]] de ling. Latin 1. i., p. 48, Bip. edition " dos erit pecunia si nuptiarum causa [[data]]: haec Graece [[δωτίνη]], ita enim hoc Siculi: ab eodem Donum. Nam Graece ut ipsi [[δῶρον]], ut alii [[δόμα]], et ut Attici [[δόσις]]."). [ SYNONYMS: [[δόμα]], [[δόσις]], [[δῶρον]], [[δωρεά]]: [[δόσις]] [[active]], a giving; [[passive]], a [[thing]] given, cf. [[medical]] [[dose]]; [[δῶρον]] [[specific]] [[present]], [[yet]] [[not]] [[always]] [[gratuitous]] or [[wholly]] unsuggestive of [[recompense]]; [[but]] [[δωρεά]] differs from [[δῶρον]] in denoting a [[gift]] [[which]] is [[also]] a [[gratuity]], [[hence]], of the benefactions of a [[sovereign]]; a [[δόσις]] Θεοῦ is [[what]] God confers as [[possessor]] of [[all]] things; a [[δωρεά]] Θεοῦ is an [[expression]] of his favor; a [[δῶρον]] Θεοῦ is [[something]] [[which]] becomes the [[recipient]]'s [[abiding]] [[possession]]. [[Philo]] de cherub. § 25, says: [[πάνυ]] ἐκδηλως παριστας ([[ὅτι]] [[τῶν]] ὄντων τά [[μέν]] [[χάριτος]] [[μέσης]] ἠξίωται, ἤ καλεῖται [[δόσις]], τά δέ ἀμεινονος, ἧς [[ὄνομα]] οἰκεῖον [[δωρεά]]. Again, de [[leg]]. alleg. iii. § 70 (on the [[same]] Biblical [[passage]]), διατηρήσεις [[ὅτι]] δῶρα δομάτων διαφερουσι. Τά [[μέν]] [[γάρ]] ἐμφασιν μεγέθους τελείων ἀγαθῶν δηλουσιν ... τά δέ [[εἰς]] βραχυτατον ἐσταλται κτλ.. Hence, [[δόμα]], δοσος, [[gift]]; [[δωρεά]], [[δῶρον]], [[benefaction]], [[bounty]], etc.; [[yet]] cf. e. g. Test xii. Patr. [[test]]. [[Zab]]. § 1ἐγώ [[εἰμί]] [[Ζαβουλών]], [[δόσις]] ἀγαθή τοῖς γονεῦσι μου, [[with]] δεδώρηται ὁ Θεός μοι [[δῶρον]] [[καλόν]] ... καί ἐκάλεσε τό [[ὄνομα]] [[αὐτοῦ]] [[Ζαβουλών]]. Cf. Schmidt, [[chapter]] 106.]  

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