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ἐλεήμων

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλεήμων ἐλεήμον

Structure: ἐλεημων (Stem)

Etym.: e)lee/w

Sense

  1. pitiful, merciful, compassionate

Examples

  • ταὐτὸ δὴ τοῦτο ἀναγκαῖον πάσχειν καὶ τοὺσ ἐλεήμονασ καὶ τοὺσ φοβητικοὺσ καὶ τοὺσ ὅλωσ παθητικούσ, τοὺσ ἄλλουσ καθ’ ὅσον ἐπιβάλλει τῶν τοιούτων ἑκάστῳ, καὶ πᾶσι γίγνεσθαί τινα κάθαρσιν καὶ κουφίζεσθαι μεθ’ ἡδονῆσ. (Aristotle, Politics, Book 8 115:1)
  • τούτων φιλανθρώπουσ καὶ ἐλεήμονασ εἶναι φησάντων τοὺσ τῶν Ἰσραηλιτῶν βασιλέασ καὶ δυνήσεσθαι τῷ συνήθει τρόπῳ τῆσ ἱκετείασ χρησαμένουσ τὴν σωτηρίαν αὐτῷ παρ’ Ἀχάβου λαβεῖν, εἰ συγχωρήσειεν αὐτοῖσ πρὸσ αὐτὸν ἀπελθεῖν, ἀφῆκεν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 477:1)
  • ἐλεήμονάσ τε μὴ εἶναι συγγνώμην τ’ ἔχειν μηδενί· (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 123:3)

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

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