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λέβης

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λέβης λέβητος

Structure: λεβητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: lei/bw

Sense

  1. a kettle or caldron
  2. a basin, a pan, a bath
  3. a cymbal
  4. a cinerary urn, a casket

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

  • καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτὴν εἰσ τὸν λέβητα τὸν μέγαν ἢ εἰσ τὸ χαλκεῖον ἢ εἰσ τὴν χύτραν. καὶ πᾶν, ὃ ἐὰν ἀνέβη ἐν τῇ κρεάγρᾳ, ἐλάμβανεν ἑαυτῷ ὁ ἱερεύσ. κατὰ τάδε ἐποίουν παντὶ Ἰσραὴλ τοῖσ ἐρχομένοισ θῦσαι Κυρίῳ ἐν Σηλὼμ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 2:14)
  • καὶ Ἑλισαιὲ ἐπέστρεψεν εἰσ Γάλγαλα, καὶ ὁ λιμὸσ ἐν τῇ γῇ, καὶ υἱοὶ τῶν προφητῶν ἐκάθηντο ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ. καὶ εἶπεν Ἑλισαιὲ τῷ παιδαρίῳ αὐτοῦ. ἐπίστησεν τὸν λέβητα τὸν μέγαν καὶ ἕψε ἕψεμα τοῖσ υἱοῖσ τῶν προφητῶν. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 4:38)
  • καὶ ἐξῆλθεν εἰσ τὸν ἀγρὸν συλλέξαι ἀριὼθ καὶ εὗρεν ἄμπελον ἐν τῷ ἀγρῷ καὶ συνέλεξεν ἀπ̓ αὐτῆσ τολύπην ἀγρίαν πλῆρεσ τὸ ἱμάτιον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐνέβαλεν εἰσ τὸν λέβητα τοῦ ἑψέματοσ, ὅτι οὐκ ἔγνωσαν. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 4:39)
  • καὶ εἶπε. λάβετε ἄλευρον καὶ ἐμβάλετε εἰσ τὸν λέβητα. καὶ εἶπεν Ἑλισαιὲ πρὸσ Γιεζὶ τὸ παιδάριον. ἔγχει τῷ λαῷ καὶ ἐσθιέτωσαν. καὶ οὐκ ἐγενήθη ἐκεῖ ἔτι ρῆμα πονηρὸν ἐν τῷ λέβητι. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 4:41)
  • ὡσ φωνὴ ἀκανθῶν ὑπὸ τὸν λέβητα, οὕτωσ γέλωσ τῶν ἀφρόνων. καί γε τοῦτο ματαιότησ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 7:6)

Synonyms

  1. a kettle or caldron

  2. a basin

  3. a cymbal

  4. a cinerary urn

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

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