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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

  • Καὶ σὺ σύνταξον τοῖσ υἱοῖσ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ λαβέτωσάν σοι ἔλαιον ἐξ ἐλαιῶν ἄτρυγον καθαρὸν κεκομμένον εἰσ φῶσ καῦσαι, ἵνα καίηται λύχνοσ διαπαντόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 27:20)
  • καὶ ἴρεωσ πεντακοσίουσ σίκλουσ τοῦ ἁγίου καὶ ἔλαιον ἐξ ἐλαιῶν εἲν (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 30:24)
  • καὶ Δαυὶδ ἀνέβαινεν ἐν τῇ ἀναβάσει τῶν ἐλαιῶν ἀναβαίνων καὶ κλαίων καὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν ἐπικεκαλυμμένοσ, καὶ αὐτὸσ ἐπορεύετο ἀνυπόδετοσ, καὶ πᾶσ ὁ λαὸσ ὁ μετ’ αὐτοῦ ἐπεκάλυψεν ἀνὴρ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀνέβαινον ἀναβαίνοντεσ καὶ κλαίοντεσ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 15:30)
  • ἡ γυνή σου ὡσ ἄμπελοσ εὐθηνοῦσα ἐν τοῖσ κλίτεσι τῆσ οἰκίασ σου. οἱ υἱοί σου ὡσ νεόφυτα ἐλαιῶν κύκλῳ τῆσ τραπέζησ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 127:3)
  • καὶ ἐπηρώτησα ἐκ δευτέρου καὶ εἶπα πρὸσ αὐτόν. τί οἱ δύο κλάδοι τῶν ἐλαιῶν οἱ ἐν ταῖσ χερσὶ τῶν δύο μυξωτήρων τῶν χρυσῶν τῶν ἐπιχεόντων καὶ ἐπαναγόντων τὰσ ἐπαρυστρίδασ τὰσ χρυσᾶσ̣ (Septuagint, Prophetia Zachariae 4:12)

Synonyms

  1. an olive-yard

Related

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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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