Definition of "obeli" [obeli]

• Plural of obelus. (noun)

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• "Parties of a town: The butchery, The cause-way, The sink, The obeli-sk, The low eating house, The prison, geol."
• "Origen's symbols (obeli and asterisks), obsolete for nine centuries."
• "Hexapla; marking with obeli the texts that occurred in the Septuagint without being in the original; adding according to Theodotion's version, and distinguishing with asterisks and metobeli the texts of the original which were not in the Septuagint; adopting from the variants of the Greek Version the texts which were closest to the"