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προφύλαξ?

Third declension Noun; Transliteration: prophylax

Principal Part: προφύλαξ προφύλακος

Structure: προφυλακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = αἱ προφυλακαί, 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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