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Obelus  n.  (pl. obeli)  (Print.) A mark; so called as resembling a needle. In old MSS. or editions of the classics, it marks suspected passages or readings.






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... of Origen, Paul introduced into his version asterisks and obeli; the asterisk (*) to indicate insertions made in the text on the authority of manuscripts and other versions; the obelus (/), to mark passages of doubtful character. Thus it supplies, as far as a version can, the Hexaplar of Origen, of which only a ...
— Companion to the Bible • E. P. Barrows



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