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νεκρών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεκρών νεκρῶνος

Structure: νεκρων (Stem)

Etym.: nekro/s

Sense

  1. a burial-place

Declension

Third 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

  • πάνδημοσ δὲ νεκρὼν εἷσ γέγονεν θάλαμοσ. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 6103)
  • κατακαύσομεν γὰρ αὐτοὺσ ἐν αὐτοῖσ, καὶ τὰ ὄρη αὐτῶν μεθυσθήσεται ἐν τῷ αἵματι αὐτῶν, καὶ τὰ πεδία αὐτῶν πληρωθήσεται νεκρῶν αὐτῶν, καὶ οὐκ ἀντιστήσεται τὸ ἴχνοσ τῶν ποδῶν αὐτῶν κατὰ πρόσωπον ἡμῶν, ἀλλὰ ἀπωλείᾳ ἀπολοῦνται, λέγει ὁ βασιλεὺσ Ναβουχοδονόσορ ὁ κύριοσ πάσησ τῆσ γῆσ. εἶπε γάρ, οὐ ματαιωθήσεται τὰ ρήματα τῶν λόγων αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 6:4)
  • εἰ γὰρ μὴ τοὺσ προπεπτωκότασ ἀναστῆναι προσεδόκα, περισσὸν ἂν ἦν καὶ ληρῶδεσ ὑπὲρ νεκρῶν προσεύχεσθαι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 12:44)
  • καὶ ἐτελέσθησαν τῷ Βεελφεγὼρ καὶ ἔφαγον θυσίασ νεκρῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 105:28)
  • σωρηδὸν γὰρ ἤδη πεπτωκότων ἐπ̓ ἀλλήλων νεκρῶν, μεταξὺ στάσ, ἀνέκοψε τὴν ὀργὴν καὶ διέσχισε τὴν πρὸσ τοὺσ ζῶντασ ὁδόν. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 18:23)
  • ἔτι γὰρ ἐν χερσὶν ἔχοντεσ τὰ πένθη καὶ προσοδυρόμενοι τάφοισ νεκρῶν, ἕτερον ἐπεσπάσαντο λογισμὸν ἀνοίασ καὶ οὓσ ἱκετεύοντεσ ἐξέβαλον, τούτουσ ὡσ φυγάδεσ ἐδίωκον. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 19:3)

Synonyms

  1. a burial-place

Related

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

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