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ἔγκληρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔγκληρος ἔγκληρον

Structure: ἐγκληρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. having a lot or share in, an equal share with
  2. having a share, an inheritance, an heir, heiress
  3. which brings wealth, possessed as an inheritance

Examples

  • ὑμᾶσ δὲ ἔλαβεν ὁ Θεὸσ καὶ ἐξήγαγεν ὑμᾶσ ἐκ τῆσ καμίνου τῆσ σιδηρᾶσ, ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, εἶναι αὐτῷ λαὸν ἔγκληρον ὡσ ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ταύτῃ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 4:20)
  • καὶ δειλίαν γὰρ καὶ κάκην κεκτήσομαι Ἄργει τε Φωκέων τ’ ἐν πολυπτύχῳ χθονί, δόξω δὲ τοῖσ πολλοῖσι ‐ πολλοὶ γὰρ κακοί ‐ προδοὺσ σεσῷσθαί σ’ αὐτὸσ εἰσ οἴκουσ μόνοσ ἢ καὶ φονεύσασ ἐπὶ νοσοῦσι δώμασι ῥάψαι μόρον σοι σῆσ τυραννίδοσ χάριν, ἔγκληρον ὡσ δὴ σὴν κασιγνήτην γαμῶν. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode, lyric 1:19)
  • ἀλλά μ’ ὁ παγκοίτασ Αἵδασ ζῶσαν ἄγει τὰν Ἀχέροντοσ ἀκτάν, οὔθ’ ὑμεναίων ἔγκληρον, οὔτ’ ἐπινύμφειόσ πώ μέ τισ ὕμνοσ ὕμνησεν, ἀλλ’ Ἀχέροντι νυμφεύσω. (Sophocles, Antigone, choral, strophe 12)

Synonyms

  1. having a lot or share in

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

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