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ἀβέβηλος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀβέβηλος ἀβέβηλη ἀβέβηλον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + βεβηλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. not profane, inviolable

Examples

  • "διὰ τί πᾶν τεῖχοσ ἀβέβηλον καὶ ἱερὸν νομίζουσι, τὰσ δὲ πύλασ οὐ νομίζουσιν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 271)
  • "ἀβέβηλον καὶ ἱερὸν νομίζουσι τὰσ δὲ πύλασ οὐ νομίζουσιν; (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 272)
  • λῃσταὶ δι’ ὑπερβολὴν ἀσεβημάτων μιαίνοντεσ καὶ τὸ ἀβέβηλον ἔδαφοσ, οὓσ ὁρᾶν ἔστι νῦν ἀδεεῖσ ἐμμεθυσκομένουσ τοῖσ ἁγίοισ καὶ τὰ σκῦλα τῶν πεφονευμένων καταναλίσκοντασ εἰσ τὰσ ἀπλήστουσ γαστέρασ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 278:1)

Synonyms

  1. not profane

Derived

  • βέβηλος (allowable to be trodden, permitted to human use, unhallowed)

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

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