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ἀρά?

First declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration: ara

Principal Part: ἀρά

Etym.: α_ρ- mostly in epic: in attic always αρ-.

Sense

  1. a prayer
  2. a prayer for evil, a curse, imprecation
  3. the effect of the curse, bane, ruin

Examples

  • καὶ εἶπε. κύριε, εἰ ἄρα εὗρον χάριν ἐναντίον σου, μὴ παρέλθῃς τὸν παῖδά σου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 18:3)
  • καὶ εἶπε Κύριος πρὸς Ἁβραάμ. τί ὅτι ἐγέλασε Σάρρα ἐν ἑαυτῇ, λέγουσα. ἆρά γε ἀληθῶς τέξομαι; ἐγὼ δὲ γεγήρακα. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 18:13)
  • εἶπε δὲ Ἁβραάμ. εἶπα γάρ, ἄρα οὐκ ἔστι θεοσέβεια ἐν τῷ τόπῳ τούτῳ, ἐμέ τε ἀποκτενοῦσιν ἕνεκεν τῆς γυναικός μου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 20:11)
  • ἐκάλεσε δὲ Ἀβιμέλεχ τὸν Ἰσαὰκ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ. ἆρά γε γυνή σου ἐστί; τί ὅτι εἶπας, ἀδελφή μου ἐστίν; εἶπε δὲ αὐτῷ Ἰσαάκ. εἶπα γάρ, μήποτε ἀποθάνω δἰ αὐτήν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 26:9)
  • οἱ δὲ εἶπαν. ἰδόντες ἑωράκαμεν, ὅτι ἦν Κύριος μετὰ σοῦ, καὶ εἴπαμεν. γενέσθω ἀρὰ ἀνὰ μέσον ἡμῶν καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον σοῦ, καὶ διαθησόμεθα μετὰ σοῦ διαθήκην, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 26:28)

Synonyms

  1. a prayer

  2. a prayer for evil

  3. the effect of the curse

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

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