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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βοεύς βοή βοής
Genitive βοέως βοέοιν βοέων
Dative βοεί βοέοιν βοεῦσιν*
Accusative βοέα βοή βοέᾱς
Vocative βοεύ βοή βοής

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

  • καὶ ἤκουσεν Ἡλὶ τὴν ̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀νφωνὴν τῆσ βοῆσ καὶ εἶπε. τίσ ἡ φωνὴ τῆσ βοῆσ ταύτησ̣ καὶ ὁ ἄνθρωποσ σπεύσασ εἰσῆλθε καὶ ἀπήγγειλε τῷ Ἡλί. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 4:14)
  • καὶ προσηύξατο πρὸσ αὐτόν, καὶ ἐπήκουσεν αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἐπήκουσε τῆσ βοῆσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν αὐτὸν εἰσ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐπὶ τὴν βασιλείαν αὐτοῦ. καὶ ἔγνω Μανασσῆσ, ὅτι Κύριοσ αὐτόσ ἐστι Θεόσ. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 33:13)
  • καὶ ἐβόησε φωνῇ μεγάλῃ μετὰ κλαυθμοῦ καὶ στεναγμοῦ καὶ βοῆσ ἰσχυρᾶσ καὶ διέρρηξε τὰ ἱμάτια αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 14:16)
  • ι ἀπὸ δὲ τῆσ βοῆσ αὐτῶν ἐγένετο ὡσανεὶ ἀπὸ μικρᾶσ πηγῆσ ποταμὸσ μέγασ, ὕδωρ πολύ. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 1:9)

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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