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κραταιός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κραταιός κραταιή κραταιόν

Structure: κραται (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poetic form of kratero/s

Sense

  1. strong, mighty, resistless

Examples

  • καὶ δόμοι λίθινοι κραταιοὶ τρεῖσ, καὶ δόμοσ ξύλινοσ εἷσ, καὶ ἡ δαπάνη ἐξ οἴκου τοῦ βασιλέωσ δοθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae II 6:4)
  • ἄρχοντεσ λαῶν συνήχθησαν μετὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ Ἁβραάμ, ὅτι τοῦ Θεοῦ οἱ κραταιοὶ τῆσ γῆσ σφόδρα ἐπήρθησαν. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 46:10)
  • ὅτι ἀλλότριοι ἐπανέστησαν ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ καὶ κραταιοὶ ἐζήτησαν τὴν ψυχήν μου καὶ οὐ προέθεντο τὸν Θεὸν ἐνώπιον αὐτῶν. . ἰδοὺ γὰρ ὁ Θεὸσ βοηθεῖ μοι, καὶ ὁ Κύριοσ ἀντιλήπτωρ τῆσ ψυχῆσ μου. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 53:5)
  • ὅτι ἰδοὺ ἐθήρευσαν τὴν ψυχήν μου, ἐπέθεντο ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ κραταιοί. οὔτε ἡ ἀνομία μου οὔτε ἡ ἁμαρτία μου, Κύριε. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 58:4)
  • ὅπλα κρείττονα τῶν βαρβαρικῶν ἡμῖν μεμηχάνηται, θώρακεσ καὶ κράνη καὶ κνημῖδεσ καὶ κραταιοὶ θυρεοί, ὑφ’ ὧν ὅλα τὰ σώματα ἔχομεν ἐν φυλακῇ, ξίφη τε ἀμφίστομα καὶ ἀντὶ λόγχησ ὑσσόσ, ἄφυκτον βέλοσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books X-XX, book 14, chapter 9 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. strong

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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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