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ἐμφερής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐμφερής ἐμφερές

Structure: ἐμφερη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)mfe/rw

Sense

  1. answering to, resembling

Examples

  • ἦν δέ τισ τόποσ καὶ λίθου λευκοῦ τῷ ἐλέφαντι κατὰ τὴν χρόαν ἐμφεροῦσ ὥσπερ ἀκόνασ τινὰσ οὐ μεγάλασ ἐκφέρων, ἐξ ὧν τὰ λάβια τοῖσ μαχαιρίοισ κατεσκεύαζον· (Strabo, Geography, Book 12, chapter 2 18:9)
  • Ἐγὼ δὲ οὐκ ἀλλότρια νομίσασ αὐτὰ τῷδε τῷ λόγῳ εἶναι διὰ τὸ περὶ τῶν βασιλέων αὐτὸν ἐνεστηκέναι καὶ ἄλλωσ ἐπὶ παραδείγματι φέρειν τοῦ τε ἀμφὶ τὰσ ψυχὰσ ἀθανασίασ ἐμφεροῦσ καὶ τοῦ θείου προμηθείᾳ τὰ ἀνθρώπεια περιειληφότοσ τῇ αὐτοῦ, καλῶσ ἔχειν ἐνόμισα εἰπεῖν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 428:1)

Synonyms

  1. answering to

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

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