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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 ἀπέστρεψεν Ἰωρὰμ ὁ βασιλεὺσ ἰατρευθῆναι ἐν Ἰεζράελ ἀπὸ τῶν πληγῶν, ὧν ἔπαισαν αὐτὸν οἱ Σύριοι ἐν τῷ πολεμεῖν αὐτὸν μετὰ Ἀζαὴλ βασιλέωσ Συρίασ. καὶ εἶπεν Ἰού. εἰ ἔστι ψυχὴ ὑμῶν μετ̓ ἐμοῦ, μὴ ἐξελθέτω ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ διαπεφευγὼσ τοῦ πορευθῆναι καὶ ἀπαγγεῖλαι ἐν Ἰεζράελ. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 9:15)
  • Φοίνικεσ δὲ καὶ Σύριοι οἱ ἐν τῇ Παλαιστίνῃ καὶ οὗτοι ὁμολογοῦσι παρ’ Αἰγυπτίων μεμαθηκέναι. (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 191:2)
  • Σύριοι δὲ οἱ περὶ Θερμώδοντα καὶ Παρθένιον ποταμὸν καὶ Μάκρωνεσ οἱ τούτοισιν ἀστυγείτονεσ ὄντεσ ἀπὸ Κόλχων φασὶ νεωστὶ μεμαθηκέναι· (Flavius Josephus, Contra Apionem, 192:1)
  • οἱ δὲ Καππαδόκαι ὑπὸ Ἑλλήνων Σύριοι ὀνομάζονται· (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 72 2:1)
  • ἦσαν δὲ οἱ Σύριοι οὗτοι τὸ μὲν πρότερον ἢ Πέρσασ ἄρξαι Μήδων κατήκοοι, τότε δὲ Κύρου. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 1, chapter 72 2:2)

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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