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ἱκέτης

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱκέτης ἱκέτες

Structure: ἱκετη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: i(/kw

Sense

  1. one who comes to seek protection, a suppliant or fugitive, one who seeks purification after homicide

Examples

  • μὴ ἐπιλάθῃ τῆσ φωνῆσ τῶν ἱκετῶν σου. ἡ ὑπερηφανία τῶν μισούντων σε ἀνέβη διὰ παντόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 73:23)
  • εἰσάκουσον, Κύριε, δεήσεωσ ἱκετῶν σου, κατὰ τὴν εὐλογίαν Ἀαρὼν περὶ τοῦ λαοῦ σου, (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 36:16)
  • εἰσ τὸ Ἥραιόν τε ἐλθόντεσ, τῶν ἱκετῶν ὡσ πεντήκοντα ἄνδρασ δίκην ὑποσχεῖν ἔπεισαν καὶ κατέγνωσαν ἁπάντων θάνατον· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 28 2:1)
  • οἱ δὲ πολλοὶ τῶν ἱκετῶν, ὅσοι οὐκ ἐπείσθησαν, ὡσ ἑώρων τὰ γιγνόμενα, διέφθειρον ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ἀλλήλουσ, καὶ ἐκ τῶν δένδρων τινὲσ ἀπήγχοντο, οἳ δ’ ὡσ ἕκαστοι ἐδύναντο ἀνηλοῦντο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 28 2:2)
  • "οὔτε γὰρ ξένων καὶ ἱκετῶν ἀδικίασ ὁ Ξένιοσ οὔτε γονέων ἀρὰσ ὁ Γενέθλιοσ οὕτω διώκει καὶ μέτεισι ταχέωσ ὡσ ἐρασταῖσ ἀγνωμονηθεῖσιν ὁ Ἔρωσ ὀξὺσ ὑπακούει, τῶν ἀπαιδεύτων καὶ ὑπερηφάνων κολαστήσ. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 20 3:3)

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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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