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λέων

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: λέων λέοντος

Structure: λεοντ (Stem)

Sense

  1. lion
  2. One having the characteristics of a lion (positive or negative): savage, noble, brave.

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 ἐπὶ τὰ συγκλείσματα αὐτῶν ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν ἐξεχομένων λέοντεσ καὶ βόεσ καὶ Χερουβίμ, καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν ἐξεχομένων οὕτωσ. καὶ ἐπάνωθεν καὶ ὑποκάτωθεν τῶν λεόντων καὶ τῶν βοῶν χῶραι, ἔργον καταβάσεως (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 7:16)
  • Δανιὴλ ἐν τῇ ἁπλότητι αὐτοῦ ἐρρύσθη ἐκ στόματοσ λεόντων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 2:60)
  • Κύριε, πότε ἐπόψῃ̣ ἀποκατάστησον τὴν ψυχήν μου ἀπὸ τῆσ κακουργίασ αὐτῶν, ἀπὸ λεόντων τὴν μονογενῆ μου. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 34:17)
  • ὁ Θεὸσ συντρίψει τοὺσ ὀδόντασ αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτῶν, τὰσ μύλασ τῶν λεόντων συνέθλασεν ὁ Κύριοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 57:7)
  • μυρμηκολέων ὤλετο παρὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν βοράν, σκύμνοι δὲ λεόντων ἔλιπον ἀλλήλουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 4:11)

Synonyms

  1. lion

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