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ἀποστολεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποστολεύς

Structure: ἀποστολευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)poste/llw

Sense

  1. a magistrate who had to fit out

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

  • ἀποστολῇ ἀποστελεῖσ τὴν μητέρα, τὰ δὲ παιδία λήψῃ σεαυτῷ, ἵνα εὖ σοι γένηται καὶ πολυήμεροσ γένῃ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 22:7)
  • οὐκ ἔστιν ἄνθρωποσ ἐξουσιάζων ἐν πνεύματι τοῦ κωλῦσαι σὺν τὸ πνεῦμα. καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐξουσία ἐν ἡμέρᾳ θανάτου, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἀποστολὴ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ πολέμου, καὶ οὐ διασώσει ἀσέβεια τὸν παῤ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 8:8)
  • Καὶ νῦν οὕτωσ εἶπε Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ Ἰσραὴλ ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν, ἣν σὺ λέγεισ. παραδοθήσεται εἰσ χεῖρασ βασιλέωσ Βαβυλῶνοσ ἐν μαχαίρᾳ καὶ ἐν λιμῷ καὶ ἐν ἀποστολῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 39:36)
  • καὶ ἰδού ἐστιν ἐξερριμμένα τῷ καύματι τῆσ ἡμέρασ καὶ τῷ παγετῷ τῆσ νυκτόσ, καὶ ἀπεθάνοσαν ἐν πόνοισ πονηροῖσ, ἐν λιμῷ καὶ ἐν ρομφαίᾳ καὶ ἐν ἀποστολῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Baruch 2:25)
  • Σαβῖνοι δὲ ταῦτα ὁρῶντεσ ἤχθοντο καὶ δι’ αἰτίασ ἀλλήλουσ εἶχον, ὅτι οὐκ ἀρχομένην τὴν Ῥωμαίων ἰσχὺν ἐκώλυσαν, ἀλλ’ ἐπὶ μέγα προηκούσῃ συμφέρεσθαι ἔμελλον, ἐδόκει τε αὐτοῖσ ἐπανορθώσασθαι τὴν προτέραν ἄγνοιαν ἀξιολόγου δυνάμεωσ ἀποστολῇ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 36 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a magistrate who had to fit out

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

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