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λῃστής

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῃστής λῃστοῦ

Structure: λῃστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: lhi/zomai

Sense

  1. robber, bandit
  2. pirate, buccaneer
  3. revolutionary, insurrectionist, guerrilla

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λῃστής λῃστᾱ́ λῃσταί
Genitive λῃστοῦ λῃσταῖν λῃστῶν
Dative λῃστῇ λῃσταῖν λῃσταῖς
Accusative λῃστήν λῃστᾱ́ λῃστᾱ́ς
Vocative λῃστά λῃστᾱ́ λῃσταί

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

  • μὴ σπήλαιον λῃστῶν ὁ οἶκόσ μου, οὗ ἐπικέκληται τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐπ’ αὐτῷ ἐκεῖ, ἐνώπιον ὑμῶν̣ καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ ἑώρακα, λέγει Κύριοσ, (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 7:10)
  • ἔχει δὲ ἐγχειρίδιον ἐν δεξιᾷ καὶ πέλεκυν, ἑαυτὸν δὲ ἐκ πολέμου καὶ λῃστῶν οὐκ ἐξελεῖται. (Septuagint, Litterae Ieremiae 1:14)
  • καὶ ὥσπερ τινὶ ἠδικηκότι βασιλέα περιπεφραγμέναι εἰσὶν αἱ αὐλαί, ὡσ ἐπὶ θανάτῳ ἀπηγμένῳ, τοὺσ οἴκουσ αὐτῶν ὀχυροῦσιν οἱ ἱερεῖσ θυρώμασί τε καὶ κλείθροισ καὶ μοχλοῖσ, ὅπωσ ὑπὸ τῶν λῃστῶν μὴ συληθῶσι. (Septuagint, Litterae Ieremiae 1:18)
  • πῶσ οὖν ἐκδεκτέον ἢ νομιστέον ὅτι εἰσὶ θεοί̣ οὔτε ἀπὸ κλεπτῶν οὔτε ἀπὸ λῃστῶν οὐ μὴ διασωθῶσι θεοὶ ξύλινοι καὶ περιάργυροι καὶ περίχρυσοι, (Septuagint, Litterae Ieremiae 1:57)
  • οἱ δ’ ὑπὸ λῃστῶν ἀποθανόντεσ ἑκκαίδεκα ποῦ εἰσιν, ὦ Ἑρμῆ; (Lucian, Cataplus, (no name) 6:12)

Synonyms

  1. robber

  2. pirate

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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