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πλῆθος?

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration: plēthos

Principal Part: πλῆθος πλήθεος

Structure: πληθο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a large number of things, a great number
  2. majority, main portion
  3. something of large size or magnitude
  4. specifically: a large group of people: crowd, multitude, throng, mob
  5. populace, people, general public

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ ὁ ἄγγελος Κυρίου. πληθύνων πληθυνῶ τὸ σπέρμα σου, καὶ οὐκ ἀριθμηθήσεται ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθους. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 16:10)
  • καὶ ἐγὼ ἰδοὺ ἡ διαθήκη μου μετὰ σοῦ, καὶ ἔσῃ πατὴρ πλήθους ἐθνῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 17:4)
  • καὶ δῴη σοι ὁ Θεὸς ἀπὸ τῆς δρόσου τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἀπὸ τῆς πιότητος τῆς γῆς καὶ πλῆθος σίτου καὶ οἴνου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 27:28)
  • μικρὰ γὰρ ἦν ὅσα σοι ἐναντίον ἐμοῦ, καὶ ηὐξήθη εἰς πλῆθος, καὶ εὐλόγησέ σε Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ἐπὶ τῷ ποδί μου. νῦν οὖν πότε ποιήσω κἀγὼ ἐμαυτῷ οἶκον; (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 30:30)
  • σὺ δὲ εἶπας. εὖ σε ποιήσω καὶ θήσω τὸ σπέρμα σου ὡς τὴν ἄμμον τῆς θαλάσσης, ἣ οὐκ ἀριθμηθήσεται ἀπὸ τοῦ πλήθους. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 32:12)
  • ὁ ἄγγελος ὁ ρυόμενός με ἐκ πάντων τῶν κακῶν εὐλογήσαι τὰ παιδία ταῦτα, καὶ ἐπικληθήσεται ἐν αὐτοῖς τὸ ὄνομά μου καὶ τὸ ὄνομα τῶν πατέρων μου Ἁβραὰμ καὶ Ἰσαάκ, καὶ πληθυνθείησαν εἰς πλῆθος πολὺ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 48:16)
  • καὶ οὐκ ἠθέλησεν, ἀλλὰ εἶπεν. οἶδα, τέκνον, οἶδα. καὶ οὗτος ἔσται εἰς λαόν, καὶ οὗτος ὑψωθήσεται. ἀλλὰ ὁ ἀδελφὸς αὐτοῦ ὁ νεώτερος μείζων αὐτοῦ ἔσται, καὶ τὸ σπέρμα αὐτοῦ ἔσται εἰς πλῆθος ἐθνῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 48:19)
  • εἶπε δὲ τῷ ἔθνει αὐτοῦ. ἰδοὺ τὸ γένος τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ μέγα πλῆθος καὶ ἰσχύει ὑπὲρ ἡμᾶς. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 1:9)

Synonyms

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