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Notes: The meanings of ᾠόν ‘egg’ (5.18: ᾠόν) and γάλα ‘milk’ (5.19: γάλα) could be classified under Body Products in Domain 8, but in the NT contexts the focus is upon these products as food and not upon the physiological processes involved in producing such products.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, n.

Inflections: ᾠόν; -οῦ

Sense 1: egg, chicken egg

Semantic entry: 5.18

Semantic domains: Foods and Condiments

Subdomains: Food

Definition: any kind of egg, but primarily a chicken egg{N:001}

Notes: In some languages a distinction is made between eggs produced by birds and those produced by such other animals as reptiles and amphibians. In this one NT context the reference is, of course, to the egg of a hen.

Show passage in OET: LUK 11:12

OET-RV LUK 11:12

12 Or the child would ask for an egg and you’d pass them a scorpion?

OET-LV LUK 11:12

12 or also will _be _requesting an_egg, will _be _handing _out a_scorpion to _him?

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UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ᾠόν

Form 1

Sense 1: egg, chicken egg