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βέβαιος

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βέβαιος βέβαιη βέβαιον

Structure: βεβαι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: bai/nw

Sense

  1. firm, steady, steadfast, sure, certain, surer
  2. steadfast, steady sure, constant, more certain
  3. certainty, firmness, resolution

Examples

  • "ἀληθήσ, ὅταν μὲν περὶ τὸ αἰσθητὸν γίγνηται καὶ ὁ τοῦ θατέρου κύκλοσ ὀρθὸσ ἰὼν εἰσ πᾶσαν αὐτοῦ τὴν ψυχὴν διαγγείλῃ, δόξαι καὶ πίστεισ γίγνονται βέβαιοι καὶ ἀληθεῖσ· (Plutarch, Compendium libri de animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 4 4:2)
  • "ὑμεῖσ τε ὦ Λακεδαιμόνιοι ἡ μόνη ἐλπίσ, δέδιμεν, μὴ οὐ βέβαιοι ἦτε. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 78)
  • "ὑμεῖσ τε, ὦ Λακεδαιμόνιοι, δέδιμεν μὴ οὐ βέβαιοι ἦτε, ἡ μόνη ἐλπίσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 710)
  • οὐδὲ γὰρ κρίνειν ἔτι τοὺσ τοιούτουσ ἀξιοῦσιν, ἀλλ’ ἐπαίρονται καὶ γάνυνται καὶ συνενθουσιῶσι ταῖσ μεγαλαυχίαισ, ἄνπερ ὦσι βέβαιοι καὶ ἀληθεῖσ· (Plutarch, De Se Ipsum Citra Invidiam Laudando, section 4 2:2)
  • "λόγοσ γάρ φησιν ἀληθήσ, ὅταν μὲν περὶ τὸ αἰσθητὸν γίγνηται καὶ ὁ τοῦ θατέρου κύκλοσ ὀρθὸσ ἰὼν εἰσ πᾶσαν αὐτοῦ τὴν ψυχὴν διαγγείλῃ, δόξαι καὶ πίστεισ γίγνονται βέβαιοι καὶ ἀληθεῖσ· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 23 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. firm

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

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