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ἅλως

Second declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἅλως ἅλω

Structure: ἁλ (Stem) + ως (Ending)

Etym.: a)le/w; like epic a(lwh/

Sense

  1. a threshing-floor
  2. the disk of sun or moon

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

  • ἄρτον ἀφοριεῖτε ἀφαίρεμα αὐτό. ὡσ ἀφαίρεμα ἀπὸ ἅλω, οὕτωσ ἀφελεῖτε αὐτόν, (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 15:20)
  • καὶ λογισθήσεται ὑμῖν τὰ ἀφαιρέματα ὑμῶν ὡσ σῖτοσ ἀπὸ ἅλω καὶ ἀφαίρεμα ἀπὸ ληνοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 18:27)
  • καὶ ἐρεῖσ πρὸσ αὐτούσ. ὅταν ἀφαιρῆτε τὴν ἀπαρχὴν ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ, καὶ λογισθήσεται τοῖσ Λευίταισ ὡσ γένημα ἀπὸ ἅλω καὶ ὡσ γένημα ἀπὸ ληνοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 18:30)
  • Ἐὰν δὲ ἁλῷ ἄνθρωποσ κλέπτων ψυχὴν ἐκ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ καταδυναστεύσασ αὐτὸν ἀποδῶται, ἀποθανεῖται ὁ κλέπτησ ἐκεῖνοσ. καὶ ἐξαρεῖσ τὸν πονηρὸν ἐξ ὑμῶν αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 24:7)
  • σὺ δὲ λούσῃ καὶ ἀλείψῃ καὶ περιθήσεισ τὸν ἱματισμόν σου ἐπί σεαυτῇ καὶ ἀναβήσῃ ἐπὶ τὸν ἅλω. μὴ γνωρισθῇσ τῷ ἀνδρὶ ἕωσ τοῦ συντελέσαι αὐτὸν τοῦ φαγεῖν καὶ πιεῖν. (Septuagint, Liber Ruth 3:3)

Synonyms

  1. a threshing-floor

  2. the disk of sun or moon

Related

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

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