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βωμός

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βωμός

Etym.: bai/nw

Sense

  1. any raised platform, a stand, a base, pedestal
  2. a raised place for sacrificing, an altar
  3. a tomb, cairn

Examples

  • λυπεῖσθε ἐφ̓ ἑαυτοῖσ, ἀπολεῖται γὰρ καὶ Δηβών, οὗ ὁ βωμὸσ ὑμῶν, ἐκεῖ ἀναβήσεσθε κλαίειν. ἐπὶ Ναβαῦ τῆσ Μωαβίτιδοσ ὀλολύζετε ἐπὶ πάσησ κεφαλῆσ φαλάκρωμα, πάντεσ βραχίονεσ κατατετμημένοι. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 15:2)
  • διὰ τοῦτο ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται, λέγει Κύριοσ, καὶ οὐκ ἐροῦσιν ἔτι. Βωμὸσ τοῦ Ταφὲθ καὶ φάραγξ υἱοῦ Ἐννόμ, ἀλλ’ ἢ Φάραγξ τῶν ἀνῃρημένων, καὶ θάψουσιν ἐν τῷ Ταφὲθ διὰ τὸ μὴ ὑπάρχειν τόπον. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 7:30)
  • ψηφίσματι γὰρ εὐνοίασ ὁ τῆσ ἀθανασίασ ἀφίδρυται βωμόσ. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 48:1)
  • τοιγαροῦν οὐκέτι σύ, ὦ Ἄπολλον, εὐδοκιμεῖσ, ἀλλὰ ἤδη πᾶσ λίθοσ καὶ πᾶσ βωμὸσ χρησμῳδεῖ, ὃσ ἂν ἐλαίῳ περιχυθῇ καὶ στεφάνουσ ἔχῃ καὶ γόητοσ ἀνδρὸσ εὐπορήσῃ, οἱοῖ πολλοὶ εἰσιν. (Lucian, Deorum concilium, (no name) 12:2)
  • πᾶν δ’ ἄλσοσ καὶ βωμὸσ Ἀπόλλωνοσ Παγασαίου λάμπεν ὑπὸ δεινοῖο θεοῦ τευχέων τε καὶ αὐτοῦ· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 4:8)

Synonyms

  1. a raised place for sacrificing

  2. a tomb

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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