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ἐνέδρα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐνέδρα

Structure: ἐνεδρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a sitting in: a lying in wait, ambush
  2. the men laid in ambush

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

  • καὶ ἀπέστειλεν αὐτοὺσ Ἰησοῦσ, καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν εἰσ τὴν ἐνέδραν καὶ ἐνεκάθισαν ἀνὰ μέσον Βαιθὴλ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον Γαί, ἀπὸ θαλάσσησ τῆσ Γαί. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 8:9)
  • καὶ εἴ γε ἀληθήσ ἐστιν ὁ περὶ τοῦ Παλαμήδουσ λόγοσ, ὁ συνετώτατοσ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν κἀν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἄριστοσ τὴν ἐπιβουλὴν καὶ ἐνέδραν ὑπὸ φθόνου φαίνεται συντεθεικὼσ κατὰ ἀνδρὸσ ὁμαίμου καὶ φίλου καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν αὐτὸν κίνδυνον ἐκπεπλευκότοσ· (Lucian, Calumniae non temere credundum, (no name) 28:1)
  • χρήσιμοι δὲ καὶ ἀποκρούσασθαι ἀπὸ χωρίου τοὺσ κατειληφότασ, οὐχ ὑπομένοντασ τὰ τραύματα, ἐπιτήδειοι δὲ καὶ τὰ ὕποπτα χωρία διερευνήσασθαι, ὠφέλιμοι δὲ καὶ ἐσ ἐνέδραν ἐγκαθέζεσθαι, ἑνί τε λόγῳ καὶ προαγωνίσασθαι τῶν πεζῶν ἀγαθοὶ καὶ συναγωνίσασθαι ὠφέλιμοι καὶ ἐπιμαχόμενοι ἱκανοὶ τελέαν τὴν ἧσσαν τοῖσ πρὸσ τῶν πεζῶν τραπεῖσι βαρβάροισ καταστῆσαι. (Arrian, chapter 15 9:1)
  • Σίμων μὲν οὖν διὰ νεότητα καὶ πρὸσ ἐλπίδα κέρδουσ ἀπατηθεὶσ οὐκ ὤκνησεν ἐλθεῖν, ὁ δ’ Ιὤζαροσ ἐνέδραν ὑποπτεύσασ ἔμεινεν. (Flavius Josephus, 388:1)
  • τοῦ δὲ Κεκίνα λοχίσαντοσ εἰσ λάσια χωρία καὶ ὑλώδη πολλοὺσ ὁπλίτασ, ἱππεῖσ δὲ προεξελάσαι κελεύσαντοσ, κἂν συνάψωσιν οἱ πολέμιοι κατὰ μικρὸν ἀναχωρεῖν καὶ ἀναφεύγειν, ἄχρι ἂν ὑπάγοντεσ οὕτωσ ἐμβάλωσιν αὐτοὺσ εἰσ τὴν ἐνέδραν, ἐξήγγειλαν αὐτόμολοι τῷ Κέλσῳ. (Plutarch, Otho, chapter 7 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. a sitting in

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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