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|txtha=κανόνος, ὁ ([[κάννα]], [[Hebrew]] קָנֶה a [[cane]], [[reed]]; Arabic: <BITMAP:Arabic4> a [[reed]], and a [[spear]], and a [[straight]] [[stick]] or [[staff]] (cf. Vanicek, Fremdwörter etc., p. 21)), [[properly]], a [[rod]] or [[straight]] [[piece]] of [[rounded]] [[wood]] to [[which]] [[anything]] is fastened to [[keep]] it [[straight]]; used for [[various]] purposes ([[see]] Passow (or Liddell and Scott), [[under]] the [[word]]); a measuring [[rod]], [[rule]]; a [[carpenter]]'s [[line]] or measuring tape, Schol. on [[Euripides]], [[Hippolytus]], 468; [[hence]], equivalent to τό [[μέτρον]] τοῦ πηδηματος ([[Pollux]], Onom. 3,30, 151), the [[measure]] of a [[leap]], as in the Olympic games; [[accordingly]] in the N. T.<br /><b class="num">1.</b> "a [[definitely]] bounded or [[fixed]] [[space]] [[within]] the limits of [[which]] [[one]]'s [[power]] or [[influence]] is confined; the [[province]] assigned [[one]]; [[one]]'s [[sphere]] of [[activity]]": [[any]] [[rule]] or [[standard]], a [[principle]] or [[law]] of investigating, judging, [[living]], acting ([[often]] so in classical Greek, as τοῦ καλοῦ, [[Euripides]], Hec. 602; ὁροι τῶν ἀγαθῶν καί κανονες, [[Demosthenes]], pro cor., p. 324,27): Cf. Credner, Zur Gesch. des Kanons (Hal., 1847), pp. 6ff; ([[especially]] Westcott, The Canon of the N. T., Appendix A; [[briefly]] in B. D. [[under]] the [[word]] Smith's Bible Dictionary, Canon Canon of Scripture; for examples of [[later]] [[usage]] [[see]] [[Sophocles]]' Lexicon, [[under]] the [[word]]).