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ὅσιος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὅσιος ὁσίου

Structure: ὁσι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. title of five special priests at Delphi
  2. Biblical: plural οἱ ὅσιοι "the saints" (LXX Psalm 29.4)

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

  • ὅτι Κύριοσ ἀγαπᾷ κρίσιν καὶ οὐκ ἐγκαταλείψει τοὺσ ὁσίουσ αὐτοῦ, εἰσ τὸν αἰῶνα φυλαχθήσονται. ἄνομοι δὲ ἐκδιωχθήσονται, καὶ σπέρμα ἀσεβῶν ἐξολοθρευθήσεται. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 36:28)
  • συναγάγετε αὐτῷ τοὺσ ὁσίουσ αὐτοῦ, τοὺσ διατιθεμένουσ τὴν διαθήκην αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ θυσίαισ, (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 49:5)
  • ἀκούσομαι τί λαλήσει ἐν ἐμοὶ Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ, ὅτι λαλήσει εἰρήνην ἐπὶ τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ὁσίουσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἐπιστρέφοντασ καρδίαν ἐπ̓ αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 84:9)
  • τοὺσ ἀγαθούσ τε καὶ ὁσίουσ καὶ κατ’ ἀρετὴν βεβιωκότασ. (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 18:9)
  • Ιἄκχ’ ὦ πολυτίμητ’ ἐν ἕδραισ ἐνθάδε ναίων, Ιἄκχ’ ὦ Ιἄκχε, ἐλθὲ τόνδ’ ἀνὰ λειμῶνα χορεύσων ὁσίουσ ἐσ θιασώτασ, πολύκαρπον μὲν τινάσσων περὶ κρατὶ σῷ βρύοντα στέφανον μύρτων, θρασεῖ δ’ ἐγκατακρούων ποδὶ τὰν ἀκόλαστον φιλοπαίγμονα τιμάν, χαρίτων πλεῖστον ἔχουσαν μέροσ, ἁγνάν, ἱερὰν ὁσίοισ μύσταισ χορείαν. (Aristophanes, Frogs, Parodos, strophe 11)

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