Mark 10:22
But his countenance fell ( ο δε στυγνασας ). In the LXX and Polybius once and in Mt 16:3 (passage bracketed by Westcott and Hort). The verb is from στυγνος, sombre, gloomy, like a lowering cloud. See on Mt 19:22 for discussion of "sorrowful" ( λυπουμενος ).
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