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χείρων

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χείρων χείρωνος

Structure: χειρ (Stem) + ων (Comparative Ending)

Etym.: xei/r

Sense

  1. worse, meaner, inferior, worse than others, a knave
  2. worse, inferior
  3. inferior
  4. worse, more severe
  5. the worse advice, ill counsels
  6. it is or will be worse, well
  7. in inferior degree, less
  8. worst, men of lowest degree

Examples

  • καὶ εἶπεν ὁ ἀλλόφυλοσ πρὸσ Δαυίδ. ὡσεὶ κύων ἐγώ εἰμι, ὅτι σὺ ἔρχῃ ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ ἐν ράβδῳ καὶ λίθοισ̣ καὶ εἶπε Δαυίδ. οὐχί, ἀλλ̓ ἢ χείρων κυνόσ. καὶ κατηράσατο ὁ ἀλλόφυλοσ τὸν Δαυὶδ ἐν τοῖσ θεοῖσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 17:22)
  • ἔριν δ’ ἀγέραστον ἐάσασ οὐ Χείρων ἀλέγιζε καὶ οὐκ ἐμπάζετο Πηλεύσ. (Colluthus, Rape of Helen, book 117)
  • ἐσχάτησ ἀδικίασ τὸ τοιοῦτον, ὡσ φαῖεν ἂν καὶ οἱ ἄριστοι τῶν νομοθετῶν, οἱο͂ν ὁ Σόλων καὶ ὁ Δράκων, ἔνορκον ποιησάμενοι τοῖσ δικασταῖσ τὸ ὁμοίωσ ἀμφοῖν ἀκροᾶσθαι καὶ τὸ τὴν εὔνοιαν ἴσην τοῖσ κρινομένοισ ἀπονέμειν, ἄχρι ἂν ὁ τοῦ δευτέρου λόγοσ παρατεθεὶσ θατέρου χείρων ἢ ἀμείνων φανῇ· (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 8:4)
  • τῷ Βαγώᾳ δὲ ἕτερα, ὥσ φασι, μέλει καὶ ἀνδρίζεται τὰ πολλὰ καὶ διὰ χειρὸσ ἔχει τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ τέλοσ κρατήσειν ἐλπίζει ἢν ἐπιδείξῃ ὡσ οὐδὲν χείρων ἐστὶν τῶν τὰσ ἵππουσ ἀναβαινόντων ὄνων. (Lucian, Eunuchus, (no name) 13:2)
  • οὕτω γέ τοι καὶ χρυσὸσ ἑτέρῳ χρυσῷ παρατεθεὶσ κρείττων εἴτε καὶ χείρων εὑρίσκεται καὶ πᾶν ἄλλο χειρούργημα, καὶ ὅσων ἐνέργεια τὸ τέλοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 1 7:4)
  • καὶ ἐπωνόμασε τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Νῶε λέγων. οὗτοσ διαναπαύσει ἡμᾶσ ἀπό τῶν ἔργων ἡμῶν καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν λυπῶν τῶν χειρῶν ἡμῶν καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ, ἧσ κατηράσατο Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 5:29)
  • καὶ ἐταράχθησαν. καὶ ἐκράτησαν οἱ ἄγγελοι τῆσ χειρὸσ αὐτοῦ καὶ τῆσ χειρὸσ τῆσ γυναικὸσ αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν χειρῶν τῶν δύο θυγατέρων αὐτοῦ, ἐν τῷ φείσασθαι Κύριον αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 19:16)
  • οὐκ αὐτόσ μοι εἶπεν, ἀδελφή μου ἐστί̣ καὶ αὕτη μοι εἶπεν, ἀδελφόσ μου ἐστίν̣ ἐν καθαρᾷ καρδίᾳ καὶ ἐν δικαιοσύνῃ χειρῶν ἐποίησα τοῦτο. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 20:5)
  • εἰ μὴ ὁ Θεὸσ τοῦ πατρόσ μου Ἁβραὰμ καὶ ὁ φόβοσ Ἰσαὰκ ἦν μοι, νῦν ἂν κενόν με ἐξαπέστειλασ. τὴν ταπείνωσίν μου καὶ τὸν κόπον τῶν χειρῶν μου εἶδεν ὁ Θεὸσ καὶ ἤλεγξέ σε ἐχθέσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 31:42)
  • εἶπε δὲ Ἰακώβ. εἰ εὗρον χάριν ἐναντίον σου, δέξαι τὰ δῶρα διὰ τῶν ἐμῶν χειρῶν. ἕνεκεν τούτου εἶδον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου, ὡσ ἄν τισ ἴδοι πρόσωπον Θεοῦ, καὶ εὐδοκήσεισ με. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 33:10)

Synonyms

  1. the worse advice

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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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