| 单词 | ciniphes |
| 释义 | ‖ ciniphes, n. pl. Obs. Also cinifes. A word taken over from the Vulgate [repr. Gr. σκνίϕες, pl., of σκνίψ, of the LXX.], where it is applied to the insects which constituted the third plague of Egypt (Exod. viii. 17); variously supposed to be gnats, lice, fleas.
a1571Jewel On Joshua vi. 1–3. 980 The Ciniphes were but little, yet they are reckoned among the great plagues of God. 1609Bible (Douay) Ps. civ. 31 And the cinifes in al their coastes. 1656Blount Glossogr., Ciniph, a gnat. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. ii. x. §10 (ed. 3) 358 In turning the dust into ciniphes [v.r. Ciphinies] (which we render lice). [Bailey has ‘ciniphes’.] |
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