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μάντις

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Gloss: a clairvoyant

Transliteration: mantis

Strong’s: G8254

1. one who divines, a seer, prophet , (Homer), etc.:—;as feminine a prophetess , [<date>variant dates<author>Tragica Adespota</author></date>, (Thucydides)
2. metaphorically a diviner, foreboder , (Sophocles Tragicus)
3. a kind of grasshopper , (Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus) (ML)
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