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βοεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βοεύς

Structure: βοευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: bou=s

Sense

  1. a rope of ox-hide

Declension

Third declension

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

  • Μετὰ δὲ τὰσ ἡμέρασ τὰσ πολλὰσ ἐκείνασ ἐτελεύτησεν ὁ βασιλεὺσ Αἰγύπτου. καὶ κατεστέναξαν οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων καὶ ἀνεβόησαν, καὶ ἀνέβη ἡ βοὴ αὐτῶν πρὸσ τὸν Θεὸν ἀπὸ τῶν ἔργων. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 2:23)
  • ὡσ ὁ καιρόσ, αὔριον ἀποστελῶ πρόσ σε ἄνδρα ἐκ γῆσ Βενιαμίν, καὶ χρίσεισ αὐτὸν εἰσ ἄρχοντα ἐπὶ τὸν λαόν μου Ἰσραήλ, καὶ σώσει τὸν λαόν μου ἐκ χειρὸσ ἀλλοφύλων. ὅτι ἐπέβλεψα ἐπὶ τὴν ταπείνωσιν τοῦ λαοῦ μου, ὅτι ἦλθε βοὴ αὐτῶν πρόσ με. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 9:16)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἤκουσαν ταῦτα τὰ ρήματα οἱ ἄρχοντεσ τῆσ δυνάμεωσ Ἀσσούρ, τοὺσ χιτῶνασ αὐτῶν διέρρηξαν, καὶ ἐταράχθη ἡ ψυχὴ αὐτῶν σφόδρα, καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτῶν κραυγὴ καὶ βοὴ μεγάλη σφόδρα ἐν μέσῳ τῆσ παρεμβολῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 14:19)
  • ἐκ δὲ τῆσ πυκνοτάτησ τε καὶ ἐμπόνου τῶν ὄχλων συναγομένησ κραυγῆσ ἀνείκαστόσ τισ ἦν βοή. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 1:28)
  • τοῖσ δὲ Ἰουδαίοισ ἀνήκεστον πένθοσ ἦν καὶ πανόδυρτοσ μετὰ δακρύων βοή, στεναγμοῖσ πεπυρωμένησ τῆσ αὐτῶν πάντοθεν καρδίασ, ὀλοφυρομένων τὴν ἀπροσδόκητον ἐξαίφνησ ἐπικριθεῖσαν αὐτοῖσ ὀλεθρίαν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 4:2)

Synonyms

  1. a rope of ox-hide

Similar forms

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

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