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μακρόθεν

Adverb; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μακρόθεν

Sense

  1. from afar, from long since

Examples

  • ἀπελθοῦσα δὲ ἐκάθητο ἀπέναντι αὐτοῦ μακρόθεν ὡσεὶ τόξου βολήν. εἶπε γάρ, οὐ μὴ ἴδω τὸν θάνατον τοῦ παιδίου μου. καὶ ἐκάθισεν ἀπέναντι αὐτοῦ, ἀναβοῆσαν δὲ τὸ παιδίον ἔκλαυσεν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 21:16)
  • καὶ ἀναβλέψασ Ἁβραὰμ τοῖσ ὀφθαλμοῖσ αὐτοῦ, εἶδε τὸν τόπον μακρόθεν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 22:4)
  • προεῖδον δὲ αὐτὸν μακρόθεν πρὸ τοῦ ἐγγίσαι αὐτὸν πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ καὶ ἐπονηρεύοντο τοῦ ἀποκτεῖναι αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 37:18)
  • καὶ κατεσκόπευεν ἡ ἀδελφὴ αὐτοῦ μακρόθεν μαθεῖν, τί τὸ ἀποβησόμενον αὐτῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 2:4)
  • Καὶ πᾶσ ὁ λαὸσ ἑώρα τὴν φωνὴν καὶ τὰσ λαμπάδασ καὶ τὴν φωνὴν τῆσ σάλπιγγοσ καὶ τὸ ὄροσ τὸ καπνίζον. φοβηθέντεσ δὲ πᾶσ ὁ λαὸσ ἔστησαν μακρόθεν. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 20:18)

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

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