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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

  • καὶ οὐ προσκολληθήσεται οὐδὲν ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναθέματοσ ἐν τῇ χειρί σου, ἵνα ἀποστραφῇ Κύριοσ ἀπὸ θυμοῦ τῆσ ὀργῆσ αὐτοῦ καὶ δώσῃ σοι ἔλεοσ καὶ ἐλεήσῃ σε καὶ πληθύνῃ σε, ὃν τρόπον ὤμοσε τοῖσ πατράσι σου, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 13:18)
  • ἀλλὰ ὑμεῖσ φυλάξεσθε σφόδρα ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναθέματοσ, μήποτε ἐνθυμηθέντεσ ὑμεῖσ αὐτοὶ λάβητε ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναθέματοσ καὶ ποιήσητε τὴν παρεμβολὴν τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ ἀνάθεμα καὶ ἐκτρίψητε ἡμᾶσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 6:18)
  • ΚΑΙ ἐπλημμέλησαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ πλημμέλειαν μεγάλην καὶ ἐνοσφίσαντο ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναθέματοσ. καὶ ἔλαβεν Ἄχαρ υἱὸσ Χαρμὶ υἱοῦ Ζαμβρὶ υἱοῦ Ζαρὰ ἐκ τῆσ φυλῆσ Ἰούδα ἀπὸ τοῦ ἀναθέματοσ. καὶ ἐθυμώθη Κύριοσ ὀργῇ τοῖσ υἱοῖσ Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 7:1)

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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