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πράκτωρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πράκτωρ πράκτορος

Structure: πρακτορος (Stem)

Etym.: = prakth/r

Sense

  1. one who does or executes, an accomplisher
  2. one who exacts payment, a tax-gatherer
  3. one who exacts punishment, a punisher, avenger, avenging

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

  • λαόσ μου, οἱ πράκτορεσ ὑμῶν καλαμῶνται ὑμᾶσ, καὶ οἱ ἀπαιτοῦντεσ κυριεύουσιν ὑμῶν. λαόσ μου, οἱ μακαρίζοντεσ ὑμᾶσ πλανῶσιν ὑμᾶσ καὶ τὸν τρίβον τῶν ποδῶν ὑμῶν ταράσσουσιν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 3:12)
  • ὅστισ δ’ ἀλιτὼν ὥσπερ ὅδ’ ἁνὴρ χεῖρασ φονίασ ἐπικρύπτει, μάρτυρεσ ὀρθαὶ τοῖσι θανοῦσιν παραγιγνόμεναι πράκτορεσ αἵματοσ αὐτῷ τελέωσ ἐφάνημεν. (Aeschylus, Eumenides, choral, anapests4)

Synonyms

  1. one who exacts payment

  2. one who exacts punishment

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

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