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κατάσκιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατάσκιος κατάσκιον

Structure: κατασκι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: skia/

Sense

  1. shaded or covered with
  2. overshadowing

Examples

  • ὁ Θεὸσ ἀπὸ Θαιμὰν ἥξει, καὶ ὁ ἅγιοσ ἐξ ὄρουσ κατασκίου δασέοσ. . ἐκάλυψεν οὐρανοὺσ ἡ ἀρετὴ αὐτοῦ, καὶ αἰνέσεωσ αὐτοῦ πλήρησ ἡ γῆ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Habacuc 3:3)
  • ὅτι ἀπ’ αἰῶνοσ συνέτριψασ τὸν ζυγόν σου, διέσπασασ τοὺσ δεσμούσ σου καὶ εἶπασ. οὐ δουλεύσω σοι, ἀλλὰ πορεύσομαι ἐπὶ πάντα βουνὸν ὑψηλὸν καὶ ὑποκάτω παντὸσ ξύλου κατασκίου, ἐκεῖ διαχυθήσομαι ἐν τῇ πορνείᾳ μου. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 2:19)

Synonyms

  1. shaded or covered with

  2. overshadowing

Related

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

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