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νᾱζῑραῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νᾱζῑραῖος νᾱζῑραίᾱ νᾱζῑραῖον

Structure: νᾱζῑραι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. (Koine Greek, biblical) consecrated in the Nazarite vows

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

  • διὸ καὶ ναζιραίων ξυρᾶσθαι διέταξε μάλα συχνούσ, τὴν δὲ χρυσῆν ἅλυσιν τὴν δοθεῖσαν αὐτῷ ὑπὸ Γαί̈ου ἰσόσταθμον τῇ σιδηρᾷ, ᾗ τὰσ ἡγεμονίδασ χεῖρασ ἐδέθη, τῆσ στυγνῆσ εἶναι τύχησ ὑπόμνημα καὶ τῆσ ἐπὶ τὰ κρείττω μαρτυρίαν μεταβολῆσ τῶν ἱερῶν ἐντὸσ ἀνεκρέμασεν περιβόλων ὑπὲρ τὸ γαζοφυλάκιον, ἵν’ ᾖ δεῖγμα καὶ τοῦ τὰ μεγάλα δύνασθαί ποτε πεσεῖν καὶ τοῦ τὸν θεὸν ἐγείρειν τὰ πεπτωκότα· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 339:1)

Synonyms

  1. consecrated in the Nazarite vows

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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