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ἄγαλμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄγαλμα

Structure: ἀγαλματ (Stem)

Etym.: a)ga/llw

Sense

  1. a glory, delight, honour, mere ornaments
  2. a pleasing gift
  3. a statue in honour of a god, an image, any statue, a portrait, picture

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ ὡσ ἐνετείλατο τοῖσ μεταγενομένοισ ὁ προφήτησ, δοὺσ αὐτοῖσ τὸν νόμον, ἵνα μὴ ἐπιλάθωνται τῶν προσταγμάτων τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ ἵνα μὴ ἀποπλανηθῶσι ταῖσ διανοίαισ βλέποντεσ ἀγάλματα χρυσᾶ καὶ ἀργυρᾶ καὶ τὸν περὶ αὐτὰ κόσμον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 2:2)
  • καὶ ταραχθήσεται τὸ πνεῦμα τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ἐν αὐτοῖσ, καὶ τὴν βουλὴν αὐτῶν διασκεδάσω, καὶ ἐπερωτήσουσι τοὺσ θεοὺσ αὐτῶν καὶ τὰ ἀγάλματα αὐτῶν καὶ τοὺσ ἐκ τῆσ γῆσ φωνοῦντασ καὶ τοὺσ ἐγγαστριμύθουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 19:3)
  • καὶ ἰδοὺ αὐτὸσ ἔρχεται ἀναβάτησ ξυνωρίδοσ. καὶ ἀποκριθεὶσ εἶπε. πέπτωκε πέπτωκε Βαβυλών, καὶ πάντα τὰ ἀγάλματα αὐτῆσ, καὶ τὰ χειροποίητα αὐτῆσ συνετρίβησαν εἰσ τὴν γῆν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 21:9)
  • ὁπόσοι δὲ ἤδη ναῶν ἢ θυσιῶν ἠξιώθησαν, ἐκείνων μὲν καθαιρεθῆναι τὰ ἀγάλματα, ἐντεθῆναι δὲ ἢ Διὸσ ἢ Ἥρασ ἢ Ἀπόλλωνοσ ἢ τῶν ἄλλων τινόσ, ἐκείνοισ δὲ τάφον χῶσαι τὴν πόλιν καὶ στήλην ἐπιστῆσαι ἀντὶ βωμοῦ. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 18:1)
  • μετὰ δὲ οὐ πολλοστῷ χρόνῳ παρ’ Αἰγυπτίων λόγον Ἀσσύριοι ἐσ θεοὺσ ἤκουσαν, καὶ ἱρὰ καὶ νηοὺσ ἤγειραν, ἐν τοῖσ καὶ ἀγάλματα ἔθεντο καὶ ξόανα ἐστήσαντο. (Lucian, De Syria dea, (no name) 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a glory

  2. a pleasing gift

Related

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

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