LEXICON OF ORIENTAL WORDS IN ANCIENT GREEK

ασιδα <Semitic; Hellenistic period>

👉 ασιδα (cj. in Hsch. α 7667, ms.: ἀσιδον)   – ‘stork (or heron)’ (LXX: Jer. 8.7; Job. 39.13; ), ἀσίδα ‘ostrich’ (Cyrill. α 1088), ‘heron’ (Hsch. α 7667).

🅔 A transliteration of Biblical Hebrew ḥăsîḏā ‘stork (or heron)’.

📖 Data: DCH: III, 283; HALOT: 337. Ref.: Arnott 2007: 28; EDG: 148; GELS: 66; Simotas 1969: 35f.