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ἀγχιστεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀγχιστεύς

Structure: ἀγχιστευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)/gxistos

Sense

  1. closely akin, next of kin

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 εἶπε Βοὸζ τῷ ἀγχιστεῖ. τὴν μερίδα τοῦ ἀγροῦ, ἥ ἐστι τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ ἡμῶν τοῦ Ἐλιμέλεχ, ἣ δέδοται Νωεμὶν τῇ ἐπιστρεφούσῃ ἐξ ἀγροῦ Μωάβ, (Septuagint, Liber Ruth 4:3)
  • ἐκέλευε γὰρ τῇ ἐπικλήρῳ ἐπιδικάζεσθαι τὸν ἔγγιστα γένουσ, ὡσαύτωσ δὲ καὶ τὴν ἐπίκληρον ἐπιδικάζεσθαι τῷ ἀγχιστεῖ, ᾧ ἦν ἀνάγκη συνοικεῖν ἢ πεντακοσίασ ἐκτῖσαι δραχμὰσ εἰσ προικὸσ λόγον τῇ πενιχρᾷ ἐπικλήρῳ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xii, chapter 17 9:2)

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

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