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νεόφυτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεόφυτος νεόφυτον

Structure: νεοφυτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. newly planted, a new convert, neophyte

Examples

  • ἡ γυνή σου ὡσ ἄμπελοσ εὐθηνοῦσα ἐν τοῖσ κλίτεσι τῆσ οἰκίασ σου. οἱ υἱοί σου ὡσ νεόφυτα ἐλαιῶν κύκλῳ τῆσ τραπέζησ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 127:3)
  • ὧν οἱ υἱοὶ ὡσ νεόφυτα ἱδρυμένα ἐν τῇ νεότητι αὐτῶν, αἱ θυγατέρεσ αὐτῶν κεκαλλωπισμέναι, περικεκοσμημέναι ὡσ ὁμοίωμα ναοῦ, (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 143:12)

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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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