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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

  • τοῦ πραΰναι αὐτὸν ἀφ̓ ἡμερῶν πονηρῶν, ἕωσ οὗ ὀρυγῇ τῷ ἁμαρτωλῷ βόθροσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 93:13)
  • βόθροσ βαθὺσ στόμα παρανόμου, ὁ δὲ μισηθεὶσ ὑπὸ Κυρίου ἐμπεσεῖται εἰσ αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 22:15)
  • ὁδὸσ ἁμαρτωλῶν ὡμαλισμένη ἐκ λίθων, καὶ ἐπ̓ ἐσχάτῳ αὐτῆσ βόθροσ ᾅδου. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 21:10)
  • βόθροσ γὰρ ὠρύγη περὶ τὸ νῦν Κομίτιον κυκλοτερήσ, ἀπαρχαί τε πάντων, ὅσοισ νόμῳ μὲν ὡσ καλοῖσ ἐχρῶντο, φύσει δ’ ὡσ ἀναγκαίοισ, ἀπετέθησαν ἐνταῦθα. (Plutarch, chapter 11 1:2)
  • ὁρᾷσ μὲν γὰρ δὴ ὅτι βαθύτεροσ ὀρύττεται τῇ ἐλαίᾳ βόθροσ· (Xenophon, Works on Socrates, , chapter 19 14:3)

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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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