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λῃστήριον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῃστήριον λῃστήριου

Structure: λῃστηρι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: from lh|sth/s

Sense

  1. a band of robbers, a retreat or nest of robbers
  2. robbery

Declension

Second 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

  • β καὶ ἀπέστειλε Κύριοσ ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ τοὺσ Χαλδαίουσ καὶ λῃστήρια Σύρων καὶ λῃστήρια Μωαβιτῶν καὶ υἱῶν Ἀμμὼν καὶ τῆσ Σαμαρείασ, καὶ ἀπέστησαν μετὰ τὸν λόγον τοῦτον κατὰ τὸν λόγον Κυρίου ἐν χειρὶ τῶν παίδων αὐτοῦ τῶν προφητῶν. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 36:11)
  • καὶ μὴν οὐχ ὁρῶ ὅ τι τὸ ἀγαθὸν αὐτῷ πρόσεστιν, εἰ μὴ ἄρα ἕν τι μόνον, ὅτι βαρύνονται οἱ φέροντεσ αὐτό, οὐ γὰρ οἶσθα ὅσοι πόλεμοι διὰ τοῦτο καὶ ἐπιβουλαὶ καὶ λῃστήρια καὶ ἐπιορκίαι καὶ φόνοι καὶ δεσμὰ ^ καὶ ἐμπορίαι καὶ δουλεῖαι; (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 11:6)
  • ἄγγελοι δὲ καὶ ὑπηρέται αὐτοῦ μάλα πολλοί, ὡσ ὁρᾷσ, ἠπίαλοι καὶ πυρετοὶ καὶ φθόαι καὶ περιπλευμονίαι καὶ ξίφη καὶ λῃστήρια καὶ κώνεια καὶ δικασταὶ καὶ τύραννοι· (Lucian, Contemplantes, (no name) 17:2)
  • τὴν μὲν ὀργάνων τε παντοδαπῶν κατάπλεω καὶ παρασκευῆσ πολυτελοῦσ εἰσ ἀπεργασίαν κακοδαίμονοσ ζωῆσ καὶ οἰκτρᾶσ, λῃστήρια δεινὰ καὶ πολέμουσ καὶ τυράννων μιαιφονίασ καὶ χειμῶνασ ἐκ θαλάττησ καὶ κεραυνὸν ἐξ ἀέροσ ἐφελκομένην καὶ κώνεια τρίβουσαν καὶ ξίφη φέρουσαν καὶ συκοφάντασ ξενολογοῦσαν καὶ πυρετοὺσ ἐξάπτουσαν καὶ πέδασ περικρούουσαν καὶ περιοικοδομοῦσαν εἱρκτάσ· (Plutarch, An vitiositas ad infelicitatem sufficia, section 3 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. robbery

Related

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

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