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μεσοποτάμιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μεσοποτάμιος μεσοποτάμιᾱ μεσοποτάμιον

Structure: μεσοποταμι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. between rivers, between two rivers, Mesopotamia

Declension

First/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

  • καὶ ἀπήγαγε πάντα τὰ ὑπάρχοντα αὐτῷ, καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν ἀποσκευὴν αὐτοῦ, ἣν περιεποιήσατο ἐν τῇ Μεσοποταμίᾳ, καὶ πάντα τὰ αὐτοῦ ἀπελθεῖν πρὸσ Ἰσαὰκ τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ εἰσ γῆν Χαναάν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 31:18)
  • υἱοὶ δὲ Ζελφᾶσ παιδίσκησ Λείασ. Γὰδ καὶ Ἀσήρ. οὗτοι υἱοὶ Ἰακώβ, οἳ ἐγένοντο αὐτῷ ἐν Μεσοποταμίᾳ τῆσ Συρίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 35:26)
  • οὗτοι υἱοὶ Λείασ, οὓσ ἔτεκε τῷ Ἰακὼβ ἐν Μεσοποταμίᾳ τῆσ Συρίασ, καὶ Δείναν τὴν θυγατέρα αὐτοῦ. πᾶσαι αἱ ψυχαί, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρεσ, τριάκοντα τρεῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 46:15)
  • καὶ παρῴκησαν τὸ πρότερον ἐν τῇ Μεσοποταμίᾳ, ὅτι οὐκ ἐβουλήθησαν ἀκολουθῆσαι τοῖσ θεοῖσ τῶν πατέρων αὐτῶν, οἳ ἐγένοντο ἐν γῇ Χαλδαίων. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 5:7)
  • μνήσθητε ὅσα ἐποίησε μετὰ Ἁβραὰμ καὶ ὅσα ἐπείρασε τὸν Ἰσαὰκ καὶ ὅσα ἐγένετο τῷ Ἰακὼβ ἐν Μεσοποταμίᾳ τῆσ Συρίασ ποιμαίνοντι τὰ πρόβατα Λάβαν τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ τῆσ μητρὸσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 8:26)

Synonyms

  1. between rivers

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

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