εἶδος

ei\do" ei\do",
ei[dou",
tov (
!EIDW), in the Septuagint chiefly for ha,r]m' and ra'To; properly, that which strikes the eye, which is exposed to view;1. the external oppearance, form, figure, shape, (so from Homer down): ;
swmatikw'/
ei[dei, ;
tov
ei\do"
tou'
proswvpou
aujtou', ;
diav
ei[dou", as encompassed with the visible appearance (of eternal things) (see
diav, A. I. 2), , -- commonly explained, by sight i. e. beholding (Luth.: im Schauen); but no example has yet been adduced from any Greek writings in which
ei\do" is used actively, like the Latin species, of vision; (
stovma
katav
stovma,
ejn
ei[dei,
kaiv
ouj
di!
oJramavtwn
kaiv
ejnupnivwn, Clement, homil. 17, 18; cf. the Septuagint).2. form, kind:
ajpov
pantov"
ei[dou"
ponhrou'
ajpevcesqe, i. e. from every kind of evil or wrong, (cf.
ponhrov", under the end); (Josephus, Antiquities 10, 3, 1
pa'n
ei\do"
ponhriva". The Greeks, especially Plato, oppose
tov
ei\do" to
tov
gevno", as the Latin does species to genus. Cf. Schmidt, chapter 182, 2).*