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λαμπτήρ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: λαμπτήρ λαμπτῆρος

Structure: λαμπτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: la/mpw

Sense

  1. a stand or grate, for lighting rooms, thou that lightest up, watch-fires

Declension

Third 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

  • κακολογοῦντοσ πατέρα ἢ μητέρα σβεσθήσεται λαμπτήρ, αἱ δὲ κόραι τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτοῦ ὄψονται σκότοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 20:10)
  • μεγαλόφρων ἐν ὕβρει θρασυκάρδιοσ, λαμπτὴρ δὲ ἀσεβῶν ἁμαρτία. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 21:4)
  • οὐ γὰρ μὴ γένηται ἔκγονα πονηρῷ, λαμπτὴρ δὲ ἀσεβῶν σβεσθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:20)
  • οὕτωσ οἱ παλαιοὶ πολλοῖσ αἰνίγμασιν ἐχρῶντο καὶ μάλιστα πρὸσ τοὺσ ἱερεῖσ, οἱο͂́ν ἐστι καὶ τὸ τοῦ λαμπτῆροσ, ἐοίκε γὰρ ὁ λαμπτὴρ τῷ περιέχοντι τὴν ψυχὴν σώματι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 722)
  • ἐοίκε γὰρ ὁ λαμπτὴρ τῷ περιέχοντι τὴν ψυχὴν σώματι. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, section 72 2:1)

Related

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

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