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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

  • ἐξηγοῦντο δὲ καὶ ἐν ταῖσ ἀναγραφαῖσ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ ὑπομνηματισμοῖσ τοῖσ κατὰ τὸν Νεεμίαν τὰ αὐτὰ καὶ ὡσ καταβαλλόμενοσ βιβλιοθήκην ἐπισυνήγαγε τὰ περὶ τῶν βασιλέων καὶ προφητῶν καὶ τὰ τοῦ Δαυὶδ καὶ ἐπιστολὰσ βασιλέων περὶ ἀναθεμάτων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 2:13)

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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