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ἀγός

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγός

Structure: ἀγ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: a)/gw

Sense

  1. a leader, chief

Declension

Second 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 ἀπήγγειλεν ὁ σκοπὸσ λέγων. ἦλθεν ἕωσ αὐτῶν καὶ οὐκ ἀνέστρεψε. καὶ ὁ ἄγων ἦγε τὸν Ἰοὺ υἱὸν Ναμεσσί, ὅτι ἐν παραλλαγῇ ἐγένετο. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 9:20)
  • ἦν γὰρ ὁ περὶ γυναικῶν καὶ τέκνων, ἔτι δὲ ἀδελφῶν καὶ συγγενῶν ἐν ἥττονι μέρει κείμενοσ αὐτοῖσ ἀγών, μέγιστοσ δὲ καὶ πρῶτοσ ὁ περὶ τοῦ καθηγιασμένου ναοῦ φόβοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:18)
  • μέγασ γὰρ ψυχῆσ ἀγὼν καὶ κίνδυνοσ ἐν αἰωνίῳ βασάνῳ κείμενοσ τοῖσ παραβᾶσι τὴν ἐντολὴν τοῦ Θεοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 13:15)
  • ὦ παῖδεσ, γενναῖοσ ὁ ἀγών, ἐφ’ ὃν κληθέντεσ ὑπὲρ τῆσ διαμαρτυρίασ τοῦ ἔθνουσ, ἐναγωνίσασθε προθύμωσ ὑπὲρ τοῦ πατρίου νόμου. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 16:16)
  • Ἀληθῶσ γὰρ ἦν ἀγὼν θεῖοσ ὁ δι’ αὐτῶν γεγενημένοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 17:11)

Synonyms

  1. a leader

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

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