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βόθρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: βόθρος βόθρᾱ βόθρον

Structure: βοθρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: Prob. from the same Root as baqu/s: cp. also Lat. fodio.

Sense

  1. any hole or pit dug in the ground, a natural trough, a hole

Examples

  • καὶ ἀνὴρ Ἰσραὴλ εἶδεν ὅτι στενῶσ αὐτῷ μὴ προσάγειν αὐτόν, καὶ ἐκρύβη ὁ λαὸσ ἐν τοῖσ σπηλαίοισ καὶ ἐν ταῖσ μάνδραισ καὶ ἐν ταῖσ πέτραισ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ βόθροισ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ λάκκοισ, (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 13:5)
  • ἐν γὰρ βόθροισ ὀρυχθεῖσιν ἐπὶ μικρὸν εὑρίσκονται καὶ χειροπληθεῖσ χρυσίου πλάκεσ ἔσθ’ ὅτε μικρᾶσ ἀποκαθάρσεωσ δεόμεναι. (Strabo, Geography, book 4, chapter 2 2:16)

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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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