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νωτοφόρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νωτοφόρος νωτοφόρον

Structure: νωτοφορ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: fe/rw

Sense

  1. carrying on the back, a beast of burthen

Examples

  • καὶ συνήγαγε Σαλωμὼν ἑβδομήκοντα χιλιάδασ ἀνδρῶν νωτοφόρων καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα χιλιάδασ λατόμων ἐν τῷ ὄρει, καὶ οἱ ἐπιστάται ἐπ’ αὐτῶν τρισχίλιοι ἑξακόσιοι. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 2:2)
  • καὶ ἐποίησεν ἐξ αὐτῶν ἑβδομήκοντα χιλιάδασ νωτοφόρων καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα χιλιάδασ λατόμων καὶ τρισχιλίουσ ἑξακοσίουσ ἐργοδιώκτασ ἐπὶ τὸν λαόν. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 2:17)
  • καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν νωτοφόρων καὶ ἐπὶ πάντων τῶν ποιούντων τὰ ἔργα ἐργασία καὶ ἐργασία, καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν Λευιτῶν γραμματεῖσ καὶ κριταὶ καὶ πυλωροί. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 34:13)
  • ἔχειν δὲ χρὴ καὶ ἄμην καὶ σμινύην κατὰ ἅμαξαν ἑκάστην, καὶ κατὰ τὸν νωτοφόρον δὲ ἀξίνην καὶ δρέπανον· (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 2 43:4)

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

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