Lexical Summary lepis: a scale (of a fish) Original Word: λεπίςTransliteration: lepis Phonetic Spelling: (lep-is') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: a scale (of a fish) Meaning: a scale (of a fish) Strong's Concordance fish scale.From lepo (to peel); a flake -- scale. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3013: λεπίςλεπίς, λεπιδος, ἡ (λέπω to strip off the rind or husk, to peel, to scale), a scale: Acts 9:18. (the Sept.; Aristotle, others (cf. Herodotus 7, 61).) |