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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 τὸν βασιλέα τῆσ Γαὶ ἐκρέμασεν ἐπὶ ξύλου διδύμου, καὶ ἦν ἐπὶ τοῦ ξύλου ἕωσ ἑσπέρασ. καὶ ἐπιδύνοντοσ τοῦ ἡλίου συνέταξεν Ἰησοῦσ καὶ καθείλοσαν τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ἀπὸ τοῦ ξύλου καὶ ἔρριψαν αὐτὸ εἰσ τὸν βόθρον καὶ ἐπέστησαν αὐτῷ σωρὸν λίθων, ἕωσ τῆσ ἡμέρασ ταύτησ. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 8:27)
  • λάκκον ὤρυξε καὶ ἀνέσκαψεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἐμπεσεῖται εἰσ βόθρον, ὃν εἰργάσατο. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 7:16)
  • παγίδα ἡτοίμασαν τοῖσ ποσί μου καὶ κατέκαμψαν τὴν ψυχήν μου. ὤρυξαν πρὸ προσώπου μου βόθρον καὶ ἐνέπεσαν εἰσ αὐτόν. . (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 56:7)
  • ὁ ὀρύσσων βόθρον τῷ πλησίον ἐμπεσεῖται εἰσ αὐτόν, ὁ δὲ κυλίων λίθον ἐφ̓ ἑαυτὸν κυλίει. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 26:28)
  • ὁ ὀρύσσων βόθρον εἰσ αὐτὸν ἐμπεσεῖται, καὶ καθαιροῦντα φραγμόν, δήξεται αὐτὸν ὄφισ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 10:8)

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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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