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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

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

  • τίσ γὰρ πιστεύσει εὐζώνῳ λῃστῇ σφαλλομένῳ ἐκ πόλεωσ εἰσ πόλιν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 36:26)
  • ΚΑΙ ἀποκαλυφθήσεται ἡ ἀδικία Ἐφραὶμ καὶ ἡ κακία Σαμαρείασ, ὅτι εἰργάσαντο ψευδῆ. καὶ κλέπτησ πρὸσ αὐτὸν εἰσελεύσεται, ἐκδιδύσκων λῃστὴσ ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ αὐτοῦ, (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 7:1)
  • εἰ κλέπται εἰσῆλθον πρόσ σε ἢ λῃσταὶ νυκτόσ, ποῦ ἂν ἀπερρίφησ̣ οὐκ ἂν ἔκλεψαν τὰ ἱκανὰ ἑαυτοῖσ̣ καὶ εἰ τρυγηταὶ εἰσῆλθον πρὸσ σέ, οὐκ ἂν ὑπελίποντο ἐπιφυλλίδα̣ (Septuagint, Prophetia Abdiae 1:5)
  • 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)
  • αἵ τε γὰρ φροντίδεσ αἱ περὶ τούτων οὐ μικραί, ἀλλ̓ ἀνάγκη ἐπαγρυπνεῖν ἑκάστοισ, μή τι ὁ οἰκονόμοσ βλακεύσασ ἢ ὑφελόμενοσ λάθῃ, μὴ ὁ οἶνοσ ὀξυνθῇ, μὴ ὁ σῖτοσ φθειρὶ ζέσῃ, ἢ ὁ λῃστὴσ ὑφέληται τὰ ἐκπώματα, μὴ πιστεύσῃ τοῖσ συκοφάνταισ ὁ δῆμοσ λέγουσι τυραννεῖν αὐτὸν ἐθέλειν ταῦτα δὲ πάντα οὐδὲ τὸ πολλοστὸν ἄν εἰή μέροσ τῶν ἀνιώντων αὐτούσ· (Lucian, Saturnalia, letter 2 2:3)
  • ἱκανὴ γὰρ ἡ φήμη διδάξαι σε, οἱο͂σ μὲν ἐγὼ βασιλεύσ, οἱο͂σ δὲ οὗτοσ λῃστὴσ ἐγένετο. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 11:2)
  • Ὁ μὲν λῃστὴσ οὑτοσὶ Σώστρατοσ ἐσ τὸν Πυριφλεγέθοντα ἐμβεβλήσθω, ὁ δὲ ἱερόσυλοσ ὑπὸ τῆσ Χιμαίρασ διασπασθήτω, ὁ δὲ τύραννοσ, ὦ Ἑρμῆ, παρὰ τὸν Τιτυὸν ἀποταθεὶσ ὑπὸ τῶν γυπῶν καὶ αὐτὸσ κειρέσθω τὸ ἧπαρ, ὑμεῖσ δὲ οἱ ἀγαθοὶ ἄπιτε κατα τάχοσ ἐσ τὸ Ἠλύσιον πεδίον καὶ τὰσ μακάρων νήσουσ κατοικεῖτε, ἀνθ̓ ὧν δίκαια ἐποιεῖτε παρὰ τὸν βίον. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 1:1)
  • πλὴν ἀλλὰ σὺ τοῦτο ἀπολαύσεισ τῆσ ἐρωτήσεωσ, διότι οὐ λῃστὴσ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ σοφιστήσ τισ εἶναι δοκεῖσ. (Lucian, Dialogi mortuorum, 7:4)

Synonyms

  1. robber

  2. pirate

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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