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ὅρκος

Second declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὅρκος ὅρκου

Structure: ὁρκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: o(/rkos was orig. equiv. to e(/rkos, as o(rka/nh to e(rka/nh, from e)/rgw, ei)/rgw, properly, that which restrains from doing a thing.

Sense

  1. the object by which one swears, the witness of an oath, as the Styx was among the gods, or as Zeus was among mortals
  2. an oath

Declension

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

  • ὅθεν ὁ Μενέλαοσ λαβὼν ἰδίᾳ τὸν Ἀνδρόνικον, παρεκάλει χειρώσασθαι τὸν Ὀνίαν. ὁ δὲ παραγενόμενοσ ἐπὶ τὸν Ὀνίαν καὶ πεισθεὶσ ἐπὶ δόλῳ καὶ δεξιὰσ μεθ̓ ὅρκων δούσ, καίπερ ἐν ὑποψίᾳ κείμενοσ, ἔπεισεν ἐκ τοῦ ἀσύλου προελθεῖν, ὃν καὶ παραχρῆμα παρέκλεισεν οὐκ αἰδεσθεὶσ τὸ δίκαιον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 4:34)
  • ὁ δὲ Ἀντίοχοσ οἰόμενοσ καταφρονεῖσθαι καὶ τὴν ὀνειδίζουσαν ὑφορώμενοσ φωνήν, ἔτι τοῦ νεωτέρου περιόντοσ, οὐ μόνον διὰ λόγων ἐποιεῖτο τὴν παράκλησιν, ἀλλὰ καὶ δἰ ὅρκων ἐπίστου ἅμα πλουτιεῖν καὶ μακαριστὸν ποιήσειν μεταθέμενον ἀπὸ τῶν πατρίων νόμων καὶ φίλον ἕξειν καὶ χρείασ ἐμπιστεύσειν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 7:24)
  • τῶν δὲ μεθ̓ ὅρκων φασκόντων μὴ γινώσκειν ποῦ ποτ̓ ἔστιν ὁ ζητούμενοσ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 14:32)
  • καὶ τοῖσ θυμοῖσ διεγείρασ αὐτοὺσ παρήγγειλεν ἅμα παρεπιδεικνὺσ τὴν τῶν ἐθνῶν ἀθεσίαν καὶ τὴν τῶν ὅρκων παράβασιν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:10)
  • Ἑλλήνων κλαίω ἀμάχητον καὶ ἀναυμάχητον ὄλεθρον ἱκέται μὲν αὐτοὶ τῶν θεῶν καθίζοντεσ, προδότασ δὲ τῶν ὁρ́κων ὑμᾶσ ἀποφαίνοντεσ ἀνακαλοῦντέσ τε συγγένειαν, εὐμένειαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 15 1:9)

Synonyms

  1. an oath

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