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βοηθός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βοηθός

Structure: βοηθ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: shortened form of bohqo/os

Sense

  1. assisting, auxiliary, an assistant

Declension

First/Second declension
Masculine Feminine Neuter
SingularNominative βοηθός βοηθή βόηθον
Genitive βοηθοῦ βοηθῆς βοήθου
Dative βοηθῷ βοηθῇ βοήθῳ
Accusative βοηθόν βοηθήν βόηθον
Vocative βοηθέ βοηθή βόηθον
DualN/A/V βοηθώ βοηθᾱ́ βοήθω
G/D βοηθοῖν βοηθαῖν βοήθοιν
PluralNominative βοηθοί βοηθαί βόηθα
Genitive βοηθῶν βοηθῶν βοήθων
Dative βοηθοῖς βοηθαῖς βοήθοις
Accusative βοηθούς βοηθᾱ́ς βόηθα
Vocative βοηθοί βοηθαί βόηθα
Positive Comparative Superlative
Adjective βοηθός βοηθοῦ βοηθότερος βοηθοτεροῦ βοηθότατος βοηθοτατοῦ
Adverb βοήθως βοηθότερον βοηθότατα

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 Αἰθιοπία ἰσχὺσ αὐτῆσ καὶ Αἴγυπτοσ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστη πέρασ τῆσ φυγῆσ, καὶ Λίβυεσ ἐγένοντο βοηθοὶ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Nahum 3:9)
  • καὶ συνδραμόντων πρὸσ αὐτόν, ὡσ εἰκόσ, πάντων ἔφραζεν ὅτι Γύλιπποσ ἀφίξεται διὰ ταχέων καὶ νῆεσ ἄλλαι βοηθοὶ προσπλέουσιν. (Plutarch, , chapter 19 1:2)
  • βοηθοὶ δ’ αὐτῆσ καὶ οἱο͂ν ὑπηρέτιδεσ ἥ τ’ ἀλλοιωτικὴ δύναμίσ ἐστι καὶ ἡ θρεπτική. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 74)
  • "ὦ μοχθηρέ, τὰσ μὲν οἰκίασ καὶ τὰ τείχη καταλελοίπαμεν, οὐκ ἀξιοῦντεσ ἀψύχων ἕνεκα δουλεύειν, πόλισ δ’ ἡμῖν ἔστι μεγίστη τῶν Ἑλληνίδων, αἱ διακόσιαι τριήρεισ, αἳ νῦν μὲν ὑμῖν παρεστᾶσι βοηθοὶ σώζεσθαι δι’ αὐτῶν βουλομένοισ, εἰ δ’ ἄπιτε δεύτερον ἡμᾶσ προδόντεσ, αὐτίκα πεύσεταί τισ Ἑλλήνων Ἀθηναίουσ καὶ πόλιν ἐλευθέραν καὶ χώραν οὐ χείρονα κεκτημένουσ ἧσ ἀπέβαλον. (Plutarch, , chapter 11 4:1)
  • καὶ μὴν οὐδ’ ὁπόσοι βοηθοὶ δίκαισ ἐν τῇ τοῦ λέγειν ῥώμῃ φασὶ γίγνεσθαι, μνήμῃ καὶ τριβῇ δόξησ ἤθεσιν προσέχοντεσ τὸν νοῦν, ἀληθείασ δὲ τῶν ὄντωσ δικαίων ἐκτὸσ παρεσφαλμένοι. (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 23:2)

Synonyms

  1. assisting

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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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