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καλός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: καλός καλή καλόν

Structure: καλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. beautiful, lovely
  2. good, quality, useful
  3. good, right, moral, virtuous, noble

Declension

First/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 λαβοῦσα Ρεβέκκα τὴν στολὴν Ἡσαῦ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτῆσ τοῦ πρεσβυτέρου τὴν καλήν, ἣ ἦν παῤ αὐτῇ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ, ἐνέδυσεν αὐτὴν Ἰακὼβ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτῆσ τὸν νεώτερον (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 27:15)
  • καὶ ἴδῃσ ἐν τῇ προνομῇ γυναῖκα καλὴν τῷ εἴδει καὶ ἐνθυμηθῇσ αὐτῆσ καὶ λάβῃσ αὐτήν σεαυτῷ γυναῖκα (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 21:11)
  • εἶδον ἐν τῇ προνομῇ ψιλὴν ποικίλην καλὴν καὶ διακόσια δίδραχμα ἀργυρίου καὶ γλῶσσαν μίαν χρυσῆν πεντήκοντα διδράχμων καὶ ἐνθυμηθεὶσ αὐτῶν ἔλαβον, καὶ ἰδοὺ αὐτὰ ἐγκέκρυπται ἐν τῇ σκηνῇ μου καὶ τὸ ἀργύριον κέκρυπται ὑποκάτω αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 7:21)
  • καὶ ἐζήτησαν νεάνιδα καλὴν ἐκ παντὸσ ὁρίου Ἰσραὴλ καὶ εὗρον τὴν Ἀβισὰγ τὴν Σωμανῖτιν καὶ ἤνεγκαν αὐτὴν πρὸσ τὸν βασιλέα. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 1:3)
  • ἐὰν δὲ συναγάγωσι χρυσίον καὶ ἀργύριον καὶ πᾶν πρᾶγμα ὡραῖον καὶ ἴδωσι γυναῖκα μίαν καλὴν τῷ εἴδει καὶ τῷ κάλλει, (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 4:18)

Synonyms

  1. beautiful

  2. good

  3. good

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