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πεύκινος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεύκινος πεύκινη πεύκινον

Structure: πευκιν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: peu/kh

Sense

  1. of or from pine or pine-wood, of the pine

Examples

  • καὶ δύο θύρασ ξύλων πευκίνων καὶ ἐγκολαπτὸν ἐπ̓ αὐτῶν ἐγκεκολαμμένα Χερουβὶμ καὶ φοίνικασ καὶ πέταλα διαπεπετασμένα. καὶ περιέσχε χρυσίῳ καὶ κατέβαινεν ἐπὶ τὰ Χερουβὶμ καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺσ φοίνικασ τὸ χρυσίον. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 6:31)
  • Κατὰ δὲ τὸν αὐτὸν καιρὸν κομισθέντων ἀπὸ τῆσ χρυσῆσ καλουμένησ γῆσ λίθου πολυτελοῦσ τῷ βασιλεῖ καὶ ξύλων πευκίνων, τοῖσ ξύλοισ εἰσ ὑποστήριγμα τοῦ τε ναοῦ καὶ τῶν βασιλείων κατεχρήσατο καὶ πρὸσ τὴν τῶν μουσικῶν ὀργάνων κατασκευὴν κινύρασ τε καὶ νάβλασ, ὅπωσ ὑμνῶσιν οἱ Ληουῖται τὸν θεόν· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 8 223:1)

Synonyms

  1. of or from pine or pine-wood

Related

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

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