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προφύλαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: προφύλαξ προφύλακος

Structure: προφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = ai( profulakai/, Thuc., Xen.

Sense

  1. an advanced guard

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 προσηυξάμεθα πρὸσ τὸν Θεὸν ἡμῶν καὶ ἐστήσαμεν προφύλακασ ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ ἡμέρασ καὶ νυκτὸσ ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 4:3)
  • καὶ εἶπα αὐτοῖσ. οὐκ ἀνοιγήσονται πύλαι Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἕωσ ἅμα τῷ ἡλίῳ, καὶ ἔτι αὐτῶν γρηγορούντων κλειέσθωσαν αἱ θύραι καὶ σφηνούσθωσαν. καὶ στῆσον προφύλακασ οἰκούντων ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ, ἀνὴρ ἐν προφυλακῇ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀνὴρ ἀπέναντι οἰκίασ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 7:3)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἔδυ ὁ ἥλιοσ, ἐπέταξεν Ἰωνάθαν τοῖσ παῤ αὐτοῦ γρηγορεῖν καὶ εἶναι ἐπὶ τοῖσ ὅπλοισ καὶ ἑτοιμάζεσθαι εἰσ πόλεμον δἰ ὅλησ τῆσ νυκτὸσ καὶ ἐξέβαλε προφύλακασ κύκλῳ τῆσ παρεμβολῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 12:27)
  • ἐμφὺσ δὲ τῷ κρημνῷ, καὶ ταῖσ δεχομέναισ τὴν ἐπίβασιν καὶ παρεχούσαισ ἀντίληψιν ἐγκλίσεσι καὶ περιαγωγαῖσ καὶ τραχύτησι τῆσ πέτρασ παραδοὺσ ἑαυτὸν καὶ ἐπερεισάμενοσ ἐξίκετο πρὸσ τὸ ἄνω πέτρασ καὶ ἀναληφθεὶσ ὑπὸ τῶν προφυλάκων ἐδήλωσε τοῖσ ἔσω τὰ δεδογμένα· (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 12 3:2)
  • προφυλάκων ἐδήλωσε τοῖσ ἔσω τὰ δεδογμένα καὶ· (Plutarch, De fortuna Romanorum, section 12 11:1)

Synonyms

  1. an advanced guard

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

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