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ἐμβολή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμβολή

Structure: ἐμβολ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: e)mba/llw

Sense

  1. a putting into, insertion
  2. a breaking in, inroad into an enemy's country, foray
  3. an assault, attack, charge, the charge made by one ship upon another, shocks
  4. the stroke
  5. a way into, entrance, pass
  6. the head of a battering-ram

Declension

First 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

  • δέσμιαι δὲ δημόσιαι μέχρι τῆσ εἰσ τὸ πλοῖον ἐμβολῆσ εἵλκοντο μετὰ βίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 4:7)
  • καὶ ὁ Ἄδραστοσ ἐπὶ τὸν σῦν ἀφεὶσ τὴν λόγχην ἐκείνου μὲν ἁμαρτήσεται, φονεύσει δὲ τὸν Κροίσου παῖδα, ὡσ ἂν ἀπ’ ἰσχυρᾶσ ἐμβολῆσ τῶν Μοιρῶν φερομένου τοῦ ἀκοντίου ἐπὶ τὸν νεανίσκον. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 12:6)
  • ἢν δέ ποτε καὶ ἐφίκηται, ἄκρον μὲν ἐπιλίγδην ἅπτεται, βαθεῖαν δὲ οὐκ ἐργάζεται πληγὴν οὐ γὰρ ἀπ’ ἰσχυρᾶσ ἐμβολῆσ ἀπεστέλλετο. (Lucian, Nigrinus, Nigrinou Fiaosofia 36:5)
  • δεομένων δὲ καὶ προϊσχομένων χεῖρασ ἐμβολῆσ μὲν ἔσχοντο, τὴν δὲ ναῦν ἀναψάμενοι καὶ καταγαγόντεσ ἀπεκήρυττον, ἅμα καὶ τὰ χρήματα καὶ τὰ σώματα, πειρατικὰ κρίναντεσ εἶναι. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 8 5:1)
  • τῇ δὲ τρίτῃ παντάπασι τοὺσ Πάρθουσ ἀπεγνωκότοσ Ἀντωνιου καὶ βαδίζοντοσ ἀνειμένωσ διὰ τὸ θαρρεῖν, ἰδὼν ὁ Μάρδοσ ἀπόχωσιν ἐμβολῆσ ποταμοῦ νεωστὶ διεσπασμένην καὶ τὸ ῥεῦμα πολὺ πρὸσ τὴν ὁδόν, ᾗ πορευτέον ἦν, ἐκχεόμενον, συνῆκεν ὅτι τῶν Πάρθων ἔργον εἰή τοῦτο δυσκολίασ ἕνεκα καὶ διατριβῆσ ἐμποδὼν αὐτοῖσ τὸν ποταμὸν τιθεμένων, καὶ τὸν Ἀντώνιον ὁρᾶν ἐκέλευε καὶ προσέχειν, ὡσ τῶν πολεμίων ἐγγὺσ ὄντων. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 41 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a putting into

  2. the stroke

  3. a way into

  4. the head of a battering-ram

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

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