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ἔλαιον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔλαιον ἐλαίου

Structure: ἐλαι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: e)lai/a

Sense

  1. olive oil, commonly used as an anointing oil
  2. any oily substance
  3. (at Athens) the oil market

Declension

Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ἐλαῖαι ἔσονταί σοι ἐν πᾶσι τοῖσ ὁρίοισ σου, καὶ ἔλαιον οὐ χρίσῃ, ὅτι ἐκρυήσεται ἡ ἐλαία σου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 28:40)
  • πορευόμενα ἐπορεύθη τὰ ξύλα τοῦ χρῖσαι ἐφ̓ ἑαυτὰ βασιλέα καὶ εἶπον τῇ ἐλαίᾳ. βασίλευσον ἐφ̓ ἡμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 9:8)
  • καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖσ ἡ ἐλαία. μὴ ἀπολείψασα τὴν ποιότητά μου, ἐν ᾗ δοξάσουσι τὸν Θεὸν ἄνδρεσ, πορεύσομαι κινεῖσθαι ἐπὶ τῶν ξύλων̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 9:9)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ ὡσεὶ ἐλαία κατάκαρποσ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ τοῦ Θεοῦ. ἤλπισα ἐπὶ τὸ ἔλεοσ τοῦ Θεοῦ εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα καὶ εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα τοῦ αἰῶνοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 51:10)
  • ὡσ φοῖνιξ ἀνυψώθην ἐν αἰγιαλοῖσ καὶ ὡσ φυτὰ ρόδου ἐν Ἱεριχώ, ὡσ ἐλαία εὐπρεπὴσ ἐν πεδίῳ, καὶ ἀνυψώθην ὡσ πλάτανοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 24:14)

Synonyms

  1. the oil market

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