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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

  • τὸ δὲ ὑμέτερον τῆσ τε δυνάμεωσ ἐνδεᾶ πρᾶξαι τῆσ τε γνώμησ μηδὲ τοῖσ βεβαίοισ πιστεῦσαι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 14 1:5)
  • τὸ δ’ ὑμέτερον τῆσ τε δυνάμεωσ ἐνδεᾶ πρᾶξαι τῆσ τε γνώμησ μηδὲ τοῖσ βεβαίοισ πιστεῦσαι, τῶν δὲ δεινῶν μηδέποτε οἰέσθαι ἀπολυθήσεσθαι· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Thucydidis idiomatibus (epistula ad Ammaeum), chapter 175)
  • οἱ καὶ καθείρξαντεσ ἐφύλαττον ἰσχυρῶσ, ζητοῦντεσ ἑλεῖν σαφέσι καὶ βεβαίοισ ἐλέγχοισ· (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 1:1)
  • συλλαβόντεσ οὖν αὐτοὺσ οἱ Λακεδαιμόνιοι καὶ καθείρξαντεσ ἐφύλαττον ἰσχυρῶσ, ζητοῦντεσ ἑλεῖν σαφέσι καὶ βεβαίοισ ἐλέγχοισ· (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 2:2)
  • ἐγὼ μὲν γὰρ εὔχομαι τοῖσ θεοῖσ, μάλιστα μὲν ἡμῖν καὶ χρήματα πολλὰ γενέσθαι, εἰ δὲ μή, τό γε πιστοῖσ εἶναι καὶ βεβαίοισ δοκεῖν διαμεῖναι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20, 34:5)
  • τὰ πρότερον ἐγνωσμένα λύσασ βεβαιοῖσ τὰ μετ’ ἐκεῖνα βεβουλευμένα. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 11:7)

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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