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ἐλαιών

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλαιών ἐλαιῶνος

Structure: ἐλαιων (Stem)

Etym.: e)lai/a

Sense

  1. an olive-yard

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐλαιών ἐλαιῶνε ἐλαιῶνες
Genitive ἐλαιῶνος ἐλαιώνοιν ἐλαιώνων
Dative ἐλαιῶνι ἐλαιώνοιν ἐλαιῶσιν*
Accusative ἐλαιῶνα ἐλαιῶνε ἐλαιῶνας
Vocative ἐλαιών ἐλαιῶνε ἐλαιῶνες

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

  • Τότε ὑπέστρεψαν εἰσ Ιἐρουσαλὴμ ἀπὸ ὄρουσ τοῦ καλουμένου Ἐλαιῶνοσ, ὅ ἐστιν ἐγγὺσ Ιἐρουσαλὴμ σαββάτου ἔχον ὁδόν. (, chapter 1 13:1)
  • ἀναβαίνοντοσ δ’ αὐτοῦ διὰ τοῦ Ἐλαιῶνοσ ὄρουσ γυμνοῖσ τοῖσ ποσὶ καὶ πάντων σὺν αὐτῷ δακρυόντων, ἀγγέλλεται καὶ ὁ Ἀχιτόφελοσ συνὼν τῷ Ἀψαλώμῳ καὶ τὰ τούτου φρονῶν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 7 246:1)

Synonyms

  1. an olive-yard

Related

Similar forms

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

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