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ἔνορκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔνορκος ἔνορκον

Structure: ἐνορκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. bound by oath
  2. that whereto one is sworn

Examples

  • καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Ραγουὴλ πρὶν ἢ συντελεσθῆναι τὰσ ἡμέρασ τοῦ γάμου ἐνόρκωσ μὴ ἐξελθεῖν αὐτὸν ἐὰν μὴ πληρωθῶσιν αἱ δεκατέσσαρεσ ἡμέραι τοῦ γάμου. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 8:20)
  • "ἐκ τοσούτων οὖν μυριάδων ἀνθρώπων οὗτοι μόνοι τὸν νόμον ἐνόρκωσ ἐτήρουν καὶ δῶρον οὐδὲ τὸ μικρότατον ἐδέχοντο, αὐτοὶ δ’ ἄλλοισ ἐδίδοσαν καὶ φίλοισ τοῖσ ἀπὸ παιδείασ ὁρμωμένοισ μεγάλα· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 6, book 6, chapter 10443)

Synonyms

  1. bound by oath

Related

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

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