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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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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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