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ἔθνος

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 기독교 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔθνος ἔθνεος

Structure: ἐθνο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)/qw

Sense

  1. group of people: tribe, family
  2. group of animals: flock, herd
  3. country, nation
  4. (later, in the plural) foreign nations, barbarians
  5. (Jewish and Christian usage, in the plural) gentiles, heathen
  6. class, caste

Declension

Third 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

  • Αὗται αἱ φυλαὶ υἱῶν Νῶε κατὰ γενέσεισ αὐτῶν, κατὰ ἔθνη αὐτῶν. ἀπὸ τούτων διεσπάρησαν νῆσοι τῶν ἐθνῶν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ μετὰ τὸν κατακλυσμόν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 10:32)
  • ἐν δὲ τῷ τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῳ ἔτει ἦλθε Χοδολλογομὸρ καὶ οἱ βασιλεῖσ μετ̓ αὐτοῦ καὶ κατέκοψαν τοὺσ γίγαντασ τοὺσ ἐν Ἀσταρὼθ καὶ Καρναί̈ν, καὶ ἔθνη ἰσχυρὰ ἅμα αὐτοῖσ καὶ τοὺσ Ὀμμαίουσ τοὺσ ἐν Σαυῇ τῇ πόλει (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 14:5)
  • καὶ αὐξανῶ σε σφόδρα σφόδρα καὶ θήσω σε εἰσ ἔθνη, καὶ βασιλεῖσ ἐκ σοῦ ἐξελεύσονται. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 17:6)
  • εὐλογήσω δὲ αὐτήν, καὶ δώσω σοι ἐξ αὐτῆσ τέκνον. καὶ εὐλογήσω αὐτό, καὶ ἔσται εἰσ ἔθνη, καὶ βασιλεῖσ ἐθνῶν ἐξ αὐτοῦ ἔσονται. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 17:16)
  • περὶ δὲ Ἰσμαὴλ ἰδοὺ ἐπήκουσά σου. καὶ ἰδοὺ εὐλόγηκα αὐτὸν καὶ αὐξανῶ αὐτόν καὶ πληθυνῶ αὐτὸν σφόδρα. δώδεκα ἔθνη γεννήσει καὶ δώσω αὐτὸν εἰσ ἔθνοσ μέγα. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 17:20)

Synonyms

  1. group of animals

  2. country

  3. class

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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