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νεώτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεώτερος νεώτερᾱ νεώτερον

Structure: νεωτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: comp. of ne/os

Sense

  1. younger, the younger sort, men of military age
  2. too young, too young to remember
  3. newer, later, later, worse
  4. an innovation, revolutionary movement

Examples

  • καὶ τὸ κόνδυ μου τὸ ἀργυροῦν ἐμβάλετε εἰσ τὸν μάρσιππον τοῦ νεωτέρου καὶ τὴν τιμὴν τοῦ σίτου αὐτοῦ. ἐγενήθη δὲ κατὰ τὸ ρῆμα Ἰωσήφ, καθὼσ εἶπε. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 44:2)
  • ἡμεῖσ δέ εἴπομεν. οὐ δυνησόμεθα καταβῆναι. ἀλλ̓ εἰ μὲν ὁ ἀδελφὸσ ἡμῶν ὁ νεώτεροσ καταβαίνει μεθ̓ ἡμῶν, καταβησόμεθα. οὐ γὰρ δυνησόμεθα ἰδεῖν τὸ πρόσωπον τοῦ ἀνθρώπου, τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ ἡμῶν τοῦ νεωτέρου μὴ ὄντοσ μεθ̓ ἡμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 44:26)
  • καὶ πᾶσ, ὃσ ἐὰν μὴ ἐκζητήσῃ τὸν Κύριον Θεὸν τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, ἀποθανεῖται ἀπὸ νεωτέρου ἕωσ πρεσβυτέρου, ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸσ ἕωσ γυναικόσ. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 15:13)
  • οὗτοι ἀπέκτειναν τοὺσ νεανίσκουσ αὐτῶν ἐν ρομφαίᾳ περικύκλῳ τοῦ ἁγίου αὐτῶν ἱεροῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐφείσαντο νεανίσκου καὶ παρθένου καὶ πρεσβύτου καὶ νεωτέρου, ἀλλὰ πάντασ παρέδωκαν εἰσ τὰσ χεῖρασ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 1:50)
  • καὶ ὅτε ἤμην ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ μου ἐν τῇ γῇ Ἰσραὴλ νεωτέρου μου ὄντοσ, πᾶσα φυλὴ τοῦ Νεφθαλὶμ τοῦ πατρόσ μου ἀπέστη ἀπὸ τοῦ οἴκου Ἱερουσολύμων, τῆσ ἐκλεγείσησ ἀπὸ πασῶν τῶν φυλῶν Ἰσραὴλ εἰσ τὸ θυσιάζειν πάσασ τὰσ φυλάσ. καὶ ἡγιάσθη ὁ ναὸσ τῆσ κατασκηνώσεωσ τοῦ Ὑψίστου καὶ ᾠκοδομήθη εἰσ πάσασ τὰσ γενεὰσ τοῦ αἰῶνοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 1:4)

Synonyms

  1. an innovation

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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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