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ἐπίλεκτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίλεκτος ἐπίλεκτον

Structure: ἐπιλεκτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: e)pile/gw

Sense

  1. chosen, picked

Examples

  • καὶ ἐρεῖσ. τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ. ὁ ἀετὸσ ὁ μέγασ ὁ μεγαλοπτέρυγοσ, ὁ μακρὸσ τῇ ἐκτάσει, πλήρησ ὀνύχων, ὃσ ἔχει τὸ ἥγημα εἰσελθεῖν εἰσ τὸν Λίβανον καὶ ἔλαβε τὰ ἐπίλεκτα τῆσ κέδρου, (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 17:3)
  • ἀνθ̓ ὧν τὸ ἀργύριόν μου καὶ τὸ χρυσίον μου ἐλάβετε καὶ τὰ ἐπίλεκτά μου τὰ καλὰ εἰσηνέγκατε εἰσ τοὺσ ναοὺσ ὑμῶν (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 4:5)

Synonyms

  1. chosen

Related

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

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