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Σύρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: Σύρα

Structure: Συρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: fem. of Su/ras

Sense

  1. a Syrian woman

Declension

First 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

  • τὸν Οὒζ πρωτότοκον καὶ τὸν Βαὺξ ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸν Καμουὴλ πατέρα Σύρων (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 22:21)
  • καὶ παρετάξατο Ἰωὰβ καὶ ὁ λαὸσ ὁ μετ̓ αὐτοῦ κατέναντι Σύρων εἰσ πόλεμον, καὶ ἔφυγον ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 19:14)
  • β καὶ ἀπέστειλε Κύριοσ ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ τοὺσ Χαλδαίουσ καὶ λῃστήρια Σύρων καὶ λῃστήρια Μωαβιτῶν καὶ υἱῶν Ἀμμὼν καὶ τῆσ Σαμαρείασ, καὶ ἀπέστησαν μετὰ τὸν λόγον τοῦτον κατὰ τὸν λόγον Κυρίου ἐν χειρὶ τῶν παίδων αὐτοῦ τῶν προφητῶν. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 36:11)
  • καὶ οὐκέτι ἔσται ὀχυρὰ τοῦ καταφυγεῖν Ἐφραίμ. καὶ οὐκέτι ἔσται βασιλεία ἐν Δαμασκῷ, καὶ τὸ λοιπὸν τῶν Σύρων ἀπολεῖται. οὐ γὰρ σὺ βελτίων εἶ τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ τῆσ δόξησ αὐτῶν. τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ σαβαώθ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 17:3)
  • ὁ Ἀπαμεὺσ ὁ τὴν τῶν Σύρων βασιλείαν ἁρπάσασ ἐπολεμεῖτο ὑπὸ Σαρπηδόνοσ τοῦ Δημητρίου στρατηγοῦ περὶ Πτολεμαΐδα πόλιν καὶ ὡσ ὁ Σαρπηδὼν λειφθεὶσ ἀνεχώρησεν εἰσ τὴν μεσόγαιαν μετὰ τῶν ἰδίων στρατιωτῶν, οἱ δὲ τοῦ Τρύφωνοσ ὥδευον κατὰ τὸ πλησίαλον νικήσαντεσ τῇ μάχῃ, ἐξαίφνησ πελάγιον κῦμα ἐξαρθὲν μετέωρον εἰσ ὕψοσ ἐξαίσιον ἐπῆλθεν τῇ γῇ καὶ πάντασ αὐτοὺσ ἐπέκλυσεν διέφθειρέν τε ὑποβρυχίουσ, ἰχθύων τε πολὺν σωρὸν ἀναχωροῦν τὸ κῦμα μετὰ τῶν νεκρῶν κατέλιπε. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 7 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a Syrian woman

Related

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

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