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Αἴγυπτος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Αἴγυπτος

Structure: Αἰγυπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the river Nile
  2. Egypt

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative Αἴγυπτος Αἰγύπτω Αί̓γυπτοι
Genitive Αἰγύπτου Αἰγύπτοιν Αἰγύπτων
Dative Αἰγύπτῳ Αἰγύπτοιν Αἰγύπτοις
Accusative Αί̓γυπτον Αἰγύπτω Αἰγύπτους
Vocative Αί̓γυπτε Αἰγύπτω Αί̓γυπτοι

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἥξει δὲ ἑπτὰ ἔτη λιμοῦ μετὰ ταῦτα, καὶ ἐπιλήσονται τῆσ πλησμονῆσ τῆσ ἐσομένησ ἐν ὅλῃ Αἰγύπτῳ, καὶ ἀναλώσει ὁ λιμὸσ τὴν γῆν, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 41:30)
  • ΙΔΩΝ δὲ Ἰακὼβ ὅτι ἐστὶ πρᾶσισ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ, εἶπε τοῖσ υἱοῖσ αὐτοῦ. ἱνατί ραθυμεῖτε̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 42:1)
  • ἰδοὺ ἀκήκοα ὅτι ἐστὶ σῖτοσ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. κατάβητε ἐκεῖ καὶ πρίασθε ἡμῖν μικρὰ βρώματα, ἵνα ζήσωμεν καὶ μὴ ἀποθάνωμεν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 42:2)
  • ἀπαγγείλατε οὖν τῷ πατρί μου πᾶσαν τὴν δόξαν μου τὴν ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ καὶ ὅσα εἴδετε, καὶ ταχύναντεσ καταγάγετε τὸν πατέρα μου ὧδε. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 45:13)
  • υἱοὶ δὲ Ἰωσὴφ οἱ γενόμενοι αὐτῷ ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ ψυχαὶ ἐννέα. πᾶσαι ψυχαὶ οἴκου Ἰακὼβ αἱ εἰσελθοῦσαι μετὰ Ἰακὼβ εἰσ Αἴγυπτον ψυχαὶ ἑβδομηκονταπέντε. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 46:27)

Synonyms

  1. the river Nile

Related

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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