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ἀνάθεμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνάθεμα ἀνάθεματος

Structure: ἀναθεματ (Stem)

Etym.: a)nati/qhmi

Sense

  1. anything devoted to evil, an accursed thing
  2. a curse

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

  • ἀναιρῶν ἀνελεῖσ πάντασ τοὺσ κατοικοῦντασ ἐν τῇ γῇ ἐκείνῃ ἐν φόνῳ μαχαίρασ, ἀναθέματι ἀναθεματιεῖτε αὐτὴν καὶ πάντα τὰ ἐν αὐτῇ (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 13:16)
  • ἀλλ̓ ἢ ἀναθέματι ἀναθεματιεῖτε αὐτούσ, τὸν Χετταῖον καὶ Ἀμορραῖον καὶ Χαναναῖον καὶ Φερεζαῖον καὶ Εὐαῖον καὶ Ἰεβουσαῖον καὶ Γεργεσαῖον, ὃν τρόπον ἐνετείλατό σοι Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ σου, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 20:17)
  • οἵτινεσ προσελθόντεσ τοῖσ ἀρχιερεῦσιν καὶ τοῖσ πρεσβυτέροισ εἶπαν Ἀναθέματι ἀνεθεματίσαμεν ἑαυτοὺσ μηδενὸσ γεύσασθαι ἑώσ οὗ ἀποκτείνωμεν τὸν Παῦλον. (, chapter 19 174:1)

Synonyms

  1. a curse

Related

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

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