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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

  • πᾶν δὲ ἀνάθεμα, ὃ ἐὰν ἀναθῇ ἄνθρωποσ τῷ Κυρίῳ ἀπὸ πάντων, ὅσα αὐτῷ ἐστιν, ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπου ἕωσ κτήνουσ καὶ ἀπὸ ἀγροῦ κατασχέσεωσ αὐτοῦ, οὐκ ἀποδώσεται, οὐδὲ λυτρώσεται. πᾶν ἀνάθεμα ἅγιον ἁγίων ἔσται τῷ Κυρίῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 27:28)
  • καὶ εἰσήκουσε Κύριοσ τῆσ φωνῆσ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ παρέδωκε τὸν Χανανεὶν ὑποχείριον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀνεθεμάτισεν αὐτὸν καὶ τὰσ πόλεισ αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἐπεκάλεσαν τὸ ὄνομα τοῦ τόπου ἐκείνου Ἀνάθεμα. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 21:3)
  • καὶ οὐκ εἰσοίσεισ βδέλυγμα εἰσ τὸν οἶκόν σου καὶ ἀνάθεμα ἔσῃ ὥσπερ τοῦτο. προσοχθίσματι προσοχθιεῖσ καὶ βδελύγματι βδελύξῃ, ὅτι ἀνάθημά ἐστι. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 7:26)
  • 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)
  • καὶ ἔσται ἡ πόλισ ἀνάθεμα, αὐτὴ καὶ πάντα, ὅσα ἐστὶν ἐν αὐτῇ, Κυρίῳ Σαβαώθ. πλὴν Ραὰβ τὴν πόρνην περιποιήσασθε, αὐτὴν καὶ πάντα ὅσα ἐστὶν ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 6:17)

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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