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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

  • Ἁβραὰμ ἐγέννησε τὸν Ἰσαάκ. ἦν δὲ Ἰσαὰκ ἐτῶν τεσσαράκοντα, ὅτε ἔλαβε τὴν Ρεβέκκαν θυγατέρα Βαθουὴλ τοῦ Σύρου ἐκ τῆσ Μεσοποταμίασ Συρίασ, ἀδελφὴν Λάβαν τοῦ Σύρου, ἑαυτῷ εἰσ γυναῖκα. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 25:20)
  • καὶ ἦλθεν Ἰακὼβ εἰσ Σαλὴμ πόλιν Σικίμων, ἥ ἐστιν ἐν γῇ Χαναάν, ὅτε ἐπανῆλθεν ἐκ τῆσ Μεσοποταμίασ Συρίασ, καὶ παρενέβαλε κατὰ πρόσωπον τῆσ πόλεωσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 33:18)
  • Ὤφθη δὲ ὁ Θεὸσ τῷ Ἰακὼβ ἔτι ἐν Λουζᾷ, ὅτε παρεγένετο ἐκ Μεσοποταμίασ τῆσ Συρίασ, καὶ εὐλόγησεν αὐτὸν ὁ Θεόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 35:9)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ ἡνίκα ἠρχόμην ἐκ Μεσοποταμίασ τῆσ Συρίασ, ἀπέθανε Ραχὴλ ἡ μήτηρ σου ἐν γῇ Χαναάν, ἐγγίζοντόσ μου κατὰ τὸν ἱππόδρομον Χαβραθὰ τῆσ γῆσ τοῦ ἐλθεῖν Ἐφραθά, καὶ κατώρυξα αὐτὴν ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ τοῦ ἱπποδρόμου αὑ̔́τη ἐστὶ Βηθλεέμ̓. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 48:7)
  • καὶ ἀναλαβὼν τὴν παραβολὴν αὐτοῦ εἶπεν. ἐκ Μεσοποταμίασ μετεπέμψατό με Βαλάκ, βασιλεὺσ Μωάβ, ἐξ ὀρέων ἀπ’ ἀνατολῶν λέγων. δεῦρο ἄρασαί μοι τὸν Ἰακὼβ καὶ δεῦρο ἐπικατάρασαί μοι τὸν Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 23:7)

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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