flint
From LSJ
Μεταλαμβάνει ὁ δοῦλος τοῦ Θεοῦ (Ὄνομα) Σῶμα καὶ Αἷμα Χριστοῦ, εἰς ἄφεσιν ἁμαρτιῶν καὶ ζωὴν αἰώνιον. Ἀμήν. → The servant of God (Name) partakes of the Body and Blood of Christ for the remission of sins and life eternal.
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
substantive
Use stone.
flint for striking a spark: use P. and V. πυρεῖα, τά (which were pieces of wood, not stone) (Plato, Republic 435A; Sophocles, Philoctetes 36).
rubbing flint against flint, I produced with labour a dim spark: V. ἀλλ' ἐν πέτροισι πέτρον ἐκτρίβων μόλις ἔφην' ἄφαντον φῶς (Sophocles, Philoctetes 296).
