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Ἀσφάλειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἀσφάλειος Ἀσφάλειη Ἀσφάλειον

Structure: Ἀσφαλει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)sfalh/s

Sense

  1. securer

Declension

First/Second declension

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

  • καὶ κατῴκισεν ἐν αὐτῇ ἄνδρασ Ἰουδαίουσ καὶ ὠχύρωσεν αὐτὴν πρὸσ ἀσφάλειαν τῆσ χώρασ καὶ τῆσ πόλεωσ καὶ ὕψωσε τὰ τείχη Ἱερουσαλήμ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 14:37)
  • ἕκαστον δὲ αὐτῶν καθοπλίσασ οὐ τὴν ἀσπίδων καὶ λογχῶν ἀσφάλειαν, ὡσ τὴν ἐν τοῖσ ἀγαθοῖσ λόγοισ παράκλησιν, καὶ προσεξηγησάμενοσ ὄνειρον ἀξιόπιστον ὕπερ τι πάντασ εὔφρανεν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:11)
  • οἵ τε πρὸσ τούτοισ λειτουργοὶ κατὰ τὴν ἑσπέραν ἀξιόντεσ τὰσ τῶν ταλαιπώρων ἐδέσμευον χεῖρασ τήν τε λοιπὴν ἐμηχανῶντο περὶ αὐτοὺσ ἀσφάλειαν, ἔννυχον δόξαντεσ ὁμοῦ λήψεσθαι τὸ φῦλον πέρασ τῆσ ὀλεθρίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 5:5)
  • ὁ θεμελιῶν τὴν γῆν ἐπὶ τὴν ἀσφάλειαν αὐτῆσ, οὐ κλιθήσεται εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 103:5)
  • κατὰ ταὐτὰ δὴ καὶ ὁ κυβερνᾶν οὐκ εἰδὼσ καὶ ἱππεύειν μὴ μεμελετηκὼσ εἰ ὁ μὲν ναῦν καλλίστην παραλάβοι, τοῖσ πᾶσι καὶ εἰσ κάλλοσ καὶ εἰσ ἀσφάλειαν κάλλιστα ἐξειργασμένην, ὁ δὲ ἵππον κτήσαιτο Μῆδον ἢ κενταυρίδην ἢ κοππαφόρον, ἐλέγχοιτο ἄν, οἶμαι, ἑκάτεροσ οὐκ εἰδὼσ ὅ τι χρήσαιτο ἑκατέρῳ, ἐπινεύεισ καὶ τοῦτο; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 5:11)

Synonyms

  1. securer

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

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