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βῆμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βῆμα

Structure: βηματ (Stem)

Etym.: bai/nw

Sense

  1. a step, pace, stride, guidance
  2. a step, seat, a raised place or tribune

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βῆμα βήματε βήματα
Genitive βήματος βημάτοιν βημάτων
Dative βήματι βημάτοιν βήμασιν*
Accusative βῆμα βήματε βήματα
Vocative βῆμα βήματε βήματα

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

  • δυσπάθειαν δὲ καὶ ῥώμην αὐτῶν ἐπιδεικνύμενοσ ὁ τεχνίτησ Ζωΐλοσ ἐκέλευσεν ἐξ εἴκοσι βημάτων ἀφεῖναι καταπελτικὸν βέλοσ, οὗ προσπεσόντοσ ἀρραγὴσ διέμεινεν ὁ σίδηροσ, ἀμυχὴν δὲ μόλισ ἔσχεν ἀμβλεῖαν, οἱο͂ν ἀπὸ γραφείου. (Plutarch, Demetrius, chapter 21 3:2)
  • <σὺ δ’> ἐν δρόμῳ προστιθεὶσ μέτρον κτίσον σῳζόμενον ῥυθμὸν τοῦτ’ ἰδεῖν διὰ πέδον ἀνομένων βημάτων ὄρεγμα; (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, antistrophe 12)
  • ὄνῳ δὲ ἀρκοῦν ἐστι γαύρωμα, ἀπαλλαγῆναι τοῦ φορτίου, ὃ τῆσ ἐφ’ ἡμέρᾳ χρείασ ἕνεκα τῷ δεσπότῃ περιφέρει, πλείουσ τῶν βημάτων τὰσ πληγὰσ ἐκλέγων. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 30:4)

Synonyms

  1. a step

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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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