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βίος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βίος βίου

Structure: βι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. life

Note

(often with a positive connotation: the good life)

Declension

Second declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βίος βίω βίοι
Genitive βίου βίοιν βίων
Dative βίῳ βίοιν βίοις
Accusative βίον βίω βίους
Vocative βίε βίω βίοι

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

  • εἰ δὲ ἀσεβείαισ κατὰ τὴν ἀποικίαν ὁ βίοσ ἡμῶν ἐνέσχηται, ρυσάμενοσ ἡμᾶσ ἀπὸ ἐχθρῶν χειρόσ, ὡσ προαιρῇ, Δέσποτα, ἀπόλεσον ἡμᾶσ μόρῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 6:10)
  • ΠΟΤΕΡΟΝ οὐχὶ πειρατήριόν ἐστιν ὁ βίοσ ἀνθρώπου ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ καὶ ὥσπερ μισθίου αὐθημερινοῦ ἡ ζωὴ αὐτοῦ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iob 7:1)
  • ὁ δὲ βίοσ μού ἐστιν ἐλαφρότεροσ λαλιᾶσ, ἀπόλωλε δὲ ἐν κενῇ ἐλπίδι. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 7:6)
  • οὐ γὰρ εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα ζήσομαι, ἵνα μακροθυμήσω. ἀπόστα ἀπ̓ ἐμοῦ, κενὸσ γάρ μου ὁ βίοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 7:16)
  • χθιζοὶ γάρ ἐσμεν καὶ οὐκ οἴδαμεν, σκιὰ γάρ ἐστιν ἡμῶν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ ὁ βίοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 8:9)

Synonyms

  1. life

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