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τινα
A. cut off with an axe, esp. behead, τινα Plb. 1.7.12, 11.30.2 (Pass.), Str. 16.2.18, D.S. 19.101, Apoc. 20.4 (Pass.).
Liddell, Scott & Jones
A Greek-English Lexicon, 1940
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