Lexical Definition

‎ἵππος‎ híppos (hip'-pos) horse ^G:N-M
of uncertain affinity

horse.

• a horse

Abbott-Smith

ἵππος, -ου, ὁ, [in LXX chiefly for סוּס, sometimes for פָּרָשׁ, רֶכֶב;]
a horse: Ja 3:3, Re 6:2 ff. Re 9:7 ff. Re 14:20 18:13 19:11 ff.†

Abbott-Smith References

Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἵππος, ὁ,

horse, ἡ, mare, most frequently feminine in Poets; in full θήλεες ἵπποι [Refs 8th c.BC+] team of chariot-horses, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: hence, of the chariot itself, ἀφ᾽ ἵπποιιν, ἀφ᾽ ἵππων, from the chariot, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἵππων ἐπιβησόμενος intending to mount his chariot, [Refs]; opposed to πεζοί, πλῆτο δὲ πᾶν πεδίον πεζῶν τε καὶ ἵππων [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of riders, νῶθ᾽ ἵππων ἐπιβάντες ἐθύνεον [Refs 8th c.BC+]; frequently of race-horses, ἵ. ἀκαμαντόποδες [Refs 5th c.BC+]., of ships, [Refs 8th c.BC+]

__2 the constellation [Refs 4th c.BC+]
__3 title of Hecate in the Mithraic cult, [Refs 3rd c.AD+]
__4 perhaps an instrument of torture, Latin eculeus, [Refs 1st c.AD+]
__II as Collective Noun, ἵππος, ἡ, horse, cavalry, ἡ τῶν Θεσσαλῶν ἵ. [Refs 5th c.BC+] a thousand horse, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ἡ διακοσία ἵ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__III a sea-fish, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; but ὁ ἵ. ὁ ποτάμιος the hippopotamus, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__IV lewd woman, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__IV.b pudenda muliebria et virilia, [Refs 5th c.AD+]
__V a complaint of the eyes, such that they are always winking, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__VI title of ministrants ('chuckersout') in certain religious ceremonies, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
__VII in compounds, to express anything large or coarse, as in our horse-chestnut, horse-laugh, see at {ἱππό-κρημνος}, -λάπαθον, -μάραθον, -πορνος, -σέλινον, -τυφία, and compare βου-. (From ἴκϝος, see at {ἴκκος}; cf. Sanskrit aśvas, Latin equus: the ἴ- (in place of e-) and the aspirate are unexplained; the latter accusative to [Refs 2nd c.AD+] was confined to Attic; compare Λεύκ-ιππος, Γλαύκ-ιππος.)