λεπ-ίς,
ίδος, ἡ, (λέπω)
1. epithelial debris, Hp. Aph. 4.81; layer of the skull, PMed. in Arch.Pap. 4.270; ᾠοῦ λ. egg- shell, Sch. Ar. Pax 198; cup of a filbert, AP 6.22 (Zonas), 102 (Phil.); coat of an onion, Sch. Luc. Hist.Conscr. 26.
2. collectively, scales of fish, λεπίδος σιδηρέης ὄψιν ἰχθυοειδέος Hdt. 7.61; ὃ ἐν ὄρνιθι πτερόν, τοῦτο ἐν ἰχθύϊ ἐστὶ λ. Arist. HA 486b21; opp. φολίς, ib. 490b23, 517b5; also of serpents, v.l. in Nic. Th. 154, cf. Emp. 82.
3. of other things, λ. χαλκοῦ flakes that fly from copper in hammering, Dsc. 5.78, 79: abs., λεπίς Hp. Mul. 1.63.
4. plate of metal, Ph. Bel. 69.50, Hero Aut. 12.2, D.S. 20.91, Plu. Phoc. 18; collectively, λ. σιδηρᾶ BGU 544.8 (ii A.D.); of gold and silver, Plb. 10.27.10; λ. ἀργυρᾶ PMag.Par. 1.258.
5. λ. πρίονος blade of a saw, Heliod. ap. Orib. 47.14.5.
6. λεπίδες (sc. χιόνος) snow- flakes, cj. in Thphr. HP 4.14.13, CP 5.12.11.
λεπίς lepis 1x
a scale, shell, rind, crust, incrustation, [Act 9:18]
G3013 — λεπίς
λεπιδος, ἡ (λέπω to strip off the rind or husk, to peel, to scale), a scale: [Act 9:18]. (the Sept.; Aristotle, others (cf. Herodotus 7, 61).)