Sense

1. a protector from a thing

Examples

• ἀλλὰ καὶ αὐτοὶ ἴδμεν, ὅ τοι περὶ μὲν πραπίδεσ, περὶ δ’ ἐστὶ νόημα, ἀλκτὴρ δ’ ἀθανάτοισιν ἀρῆσ γένεο κρυεροῖο. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 64:2)

Similar forms

• ἀλκτῆρα (7)
• ἀλκτήριον (1)
• ἀλκτὴρ (1)
• ἀλκτῆρες (1)

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