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Ἕλλην

Third declension Noun; Masculine 고유 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Ἕλλην Ἕλληνος

Structure: Ἑλλην (Stem)

Sense

  1. Greek, one who is from Greece or speaks Greek.
  2. one who participates in Greek culture.
  3. often used in Jewish and Christian literature as referring to any non-Jew: gentile
  4. pagan

Declension

Third 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 ἐξῆλθεν ἐξ αὐτῶν ρίζα ἁμαρτωλὸσ Ἀντίοχοσ Ἐπιφανήσ, υἱὸσ Ἀντιόχου βασιλέωσ, ὃσ ἦν ὅμηρα ἐν τῇ Ρώμῃ. καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν ἔτει ἑκατοστῷ καὶ τριακοστῷ καὶ ἑβδόμῳ βασιλείασ Ἑλλήνων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 1:10)
  • καὶ τοῦ ἆραι τὸν ζυγὸν ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν, ὅτι εἶδον τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν Ἑλλήνων καταδουλουμένουσ τὸν Ἰσραὴλ δουλείᾳ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 8:18)
  • τοῦ δὲ βασιλέωσ ἐπανελθόντοσ ἀπὸ τῶν κατὰ Κιλικίαν τόπων, ἐνετύγχανον οἱ κατὰ πόλιν Ἰουδαῖοι, συμμισοπονηρούντων καὶ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ὑπὲρ τοῦ παρὰ λόγον τὸν Ὀνίαν ἀπεκτάνθαι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 4:36)
  • καὶ τοὺσ υἱοὺσ Ἰούδα καὶ τοὺσ υἱοὺσ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἀπέδοσε τοῖσ υἱοῖσ τῶν Ἑλλήνων, ὅπωσ ἐξώσητε αὐτοὺσ ἐκ τῶν ὁρίων αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 4:6)
  • διότι ἐνέτεινά σε, Ἰούδα, ἐμαυτῷ εἰσ τόξον, ἔπλησα τὸν Ἐφραὶμ καὶ ἐξεγερῶ τὰ τέκνα σου, Σιών, ἐπὶ τὰ τέκνα τῶν Ἑλλήνων καὶ ψηλαφήσω σε ὡσ ρομφαίαν μαχητοῦ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 9:13)
  • ’ τὸ δὲ ἀπὸ τούτου διελόμενοι κατὰ ἔθνη τὰσ ταφὰσ ὁ μὲν Ἕλλην ἔκαυσεν, ὁ δὲ Πέρσησ ἔθαψεν, ὁ δὲ Ἰνδὸσ ὑάλῳ περιχρίει, ὁ δὲ Σκύθησ κατεσθίει, ταριχεύει δὲ ὁ Αἰγύπτιοσ· (Lucian, (no name) 19:2)
  • ὁ γάρ τοι γενναιότατοσ οὗτοσ Διόνυσοσ ἡμιάνθρωποσ ὤν, οὐδὲ Ἕλλην μητρόθεν ἀλλὰ Συροφοίνικόσ τινοσ ἐμπόρου τοῦ Κάδμου θυγατριδοῦσ, ἐπείπερ ἠξιώθη τῆσ ἀθανασίασ, οἱο͂σ μὲν αὐτόσ ἐστιν οὐ λέγω, οὔτε τὴν μίτραν οὔτε τὴν μέθην οὔτε τὸ βάδισμα· (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 4:2)
  • οὐχ Ἕλλην, ὡσ ἐοίκεν, ἀπὸ γοῦν τῆσ στολῆσ. (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 9:2)
  • ὁ μὲν γὰρ κατήγοροσ καὶ σιωπῶν ἀξιόπιστοσ, σὺ δὲ Ἕλλην καὶ ῥᾴδιοσ τὸν τρόπον καὶ πρὸσ πᾶσαν ἀδικίαν εὔκολοσ. (Lucian, De mercede, (no name) 40:3)
  • ἥ γε καὶ παρεσκεύασται, ἤν τισ Ἕλλην ἀφίκηταί ποτε έσ τὴν Ταυρικήν, συνεκπλεῦσαι μετ̓ αὐτοῦ μυσαττομένη τὰσ σφαγάσ; (Lucian, Dialogi deorum, 3:6)

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