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φόβος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φόβος φόβου

Structure: φοβ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/bomai

Sense

  1. fear, terror, alarm, fright, panic
  2. The act of fleeing: flight, retreat
  3. awe, reverence
  4. That which causes fear: terror

Declension

Second 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 τὸν φόβον ἀποστελῶ ἡγούμενόν σου καὶ ἐκστήσω πάντα τά ἔθνη, εἰσ οὓσ σὺ εἰσπορεύῃ εἰσ αὐτούσ, καὶ δώσω πάντασ τούσ ὑπεναντίουσ σου φυγάδασ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 23:27)
  • ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ταύτῃ ἐνάρχου δοῦναι τὸν τρόμον σου καὶ τὸν φόβον σου ἐπὶ προσώπου πάντων τῶν ἐθνῶν τῶν ὑποκάτω τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, οἵτινεσ ἀκούσαντεσ τὸ ὄνομά σου ταραχθήσονται καὶ ὠδῖνασ ἕξουσιν ἀπὸ προσώπου σου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 2:18)
  • οὐκ ἀντιστήσεται οὐδεὶσ κατὰ πρόσωπον ὑμῶν. τὸν φόβον ὑμῶν καὶ τὸν τρόμον ὑμῶν ἐπιθήσει Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ ὑμῶν ἐπὶ πρόσωπον πάσησ τῆσ γῆσ, ἐφ̓ ἧσ ἂν ἐπιβῆτε ἐπ̓ αὐτῆσ, ὃν τρόπον ἐλάλησε πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 11:25)
  • λέγει ὁ Θεὸσ Ἰσραήλ, ἐμοὶ ἐλάλησε φύλαξ Ἰσραήλ. παραβολὴν εἰπὸν ἐν ἀνθρώπῳ. πῶσ κραταιώσητε φόβον Θεοῦ̣ (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 23:3)
  • καὶ ἐγένετο ὄνομα Δαυὶδ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ, καὶ Κύριοσ ἔδωκε τὸν φόβον αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 14:17)

Synonyms

  1. fear

  2. The act of fleeing

  3. awe

  4. That which causes fear

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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