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ἄιρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄιρος ἄιρᾱ ἄιρον

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

Sense

  1. unhappy Irus

Examples

  • καὶ ἐβόησε ταχὺ πρὸσ τὸ παιδάριον τὸ αἷρον τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ. σπάσον τὴν ρομφαίαν μου καὶ θανάτωσόν με, μή ποτε εἴπωσι. γυνὴ ἀπέκτεινεν αὐτόν. καὶ ἐξεκέντησεν αὐτὸν τὸ παιδάριον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀπέθανε. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 9:54)
  • καὶ εἶπεν Ἰωνάθαν πρὸσ τὸ παιδάριον τὸ αἶρον τὰ σκεύη αὐτοῦ. δεῦρο διαβῶμεν εἰσ Μεσσὰβ τῶν ἀπεριτμήτων τούτων, εἴτι ποιήσαι Κύριοσ ἡμῖν. ὅτι οὐκ ἔστι τῷ Κυρίῳ συνεχόμενον σῴζειν ἐν πολλοῖσ ἢ ἐν ὀλίγοισ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 14:6)

Synonyms

  1. unhappy Irus

Related

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

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