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Σύριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: Σύριος Σύριᾱ Σύριον

Structure: Συρι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of or from Syria

Examples

  • καὶ ἀποκριθεὶσ ἐρεῖσ ἔναντι Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ σου. Συρίαν ἀπέβαλεν ὁ πατήρ μου καὶ κατέβη εἰσ Αἴγυπτον καὶ παρῴκησεν ἐκεῖ ἐν ἀριθμῷ βραχεῖ καὶ ἐγένετο ἐκεῖ εἰσ ἔθνοσ μέγα καὶ πλῆθοσ πολύ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 26:5)
  • καὶ εἶδον οἱ υἱοὶ Ἀμμών, ὅτι κατῃσχύνθησαν ὁ λαὸσ Δαυίδ, καὶ ἀπέστειλαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἀμμὼν καὶ ἐμισθώσαντο τὴν Συρίαν Βαιθραὰμ καὶ τὴν Συρίαν Σουβά, εἴκοσι χιλιάδασ πεζῶν, καὶ τὸν βασιλέα Μααχά, χιλίουσ ἄνδρασ, καὶ Ἰστώβ, δώδεκα χιλιάδασ ἀνδρῶν. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 10:6)
  • καὶ προσῆλθεν Ἰωὰβ καὶ ὁ λαὸσ αὐτοῦ μετ’ αὐτοῦ εἰσ πόλεμον πρὸσ Συρίαν, καὶ ἔφυγαν ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 10:13)
  • καὶ ἀπέστειλεν Ἀδρααζὰρ καὶ συνήγαγε τὴν Συρίαν τὴν ἐκ τοῦ πέραν τοῦ ποταμοῦ Χαλαμάκ, καὶ παρεγένοντο εἰσ Αἰλάμ, καὶ Σωβὰκ ἄρχων τῆσ δυνάμεωσ Ἀδρααζὰρ ἔμπροσθεν αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 10:16)

Synonyms

  1. of or from Syria

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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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