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πρόθυρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρόθυρον πρόθυρου

Structure: προθυρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: qu/ra

Sense

  1. the front-door, the door leading from the
  2. the space before a door, porch or verandah

Declension

Second 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

  • ἐξῆλθε δὲ Λὼτ πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ πρὸσ τὸ πρόθυρον, τὴν δὲ θύραν προσέῳξεν ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 19:6)
  • καὶ ἀνέστη ὁ ἀνὴρ αὐτῆσ τὸ πρωί̈ καὶ ἤνοιξε τὰσ θύρασ τοῦ οἴκου, καὶ ἐξῆλθε τοῦ πορευθῆναι τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ, καί ἰδοὺ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ ἡ παλλακὴ πεπτωκυῖα παρὰ τὰσ θύρασ τοῦ οἴκου, καὶ αἱ χεῖρεσ αὐτῆσ ἐπὶ τὸ πρόθυρον. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 19:27)
  • καὶ ἐγένετο ὅτε ὤρθρισαν τὸ πρωί̈, καὶ ἰδοὺ Δαγὼν πεπτωκὼσ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ ἐνώπιον κιβωτοῦ διαθήκησ Κυρίου, καὶ ἡ κεφαλὴ Δαγὼν καὶ ἀμφότερα τὰ ἴχνη χειρῶν αὐτοῦ ἀφῃρημένα ἐπὶ τά ἐμπρόσθια ἀμαφὲθ ἕκαστον, καὶ ἀμφότεροι οἱ καρποὶ τῶν χειρῶν αὐτοῦ πεπτωκότεσ ἐπὶ τὸ πρόθυρον, πλὴν ἡ ράχισ Δαγὼν ὑπελείφθη. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 5:4)
  • τρισολυμπιονίκαν ἐπαινέων οἶκον ἅμερον ἀστοῖσ, ξένοισι δὲ θεράποντα, γνώσομαι τὰν ὀλβίαν Κόρινθον, Ἰσθμίου πρόθυρον Ποτειδᾶνοσ, ἀγλαόκουρον. (Pindar, Odes, olympian odes, olympian 13 1:1)
  • ἀλλ’ ἐπεύξασθαι μὲν ἐγὼν ἐθέλω Ματρί, τὰν κοῦραι παρ’ ἐμὸν πρόθυρον σὺν Πανὶ μέλπονται θαμὰ σεμνὰν θεὸν ἐννύχιαι. (Pindar, Odes, pythian odes, pythian 3 24:1)
  • ἐν τῷ τιθέναι αὐτοὺσ τὸ πρόθυρόν μου ἐν τοῖσ προθύροισ αὐτῶν καὶ τὰσ φλιάσ μου ἐχομένασ τῶν φλιῶν αὐτῶν καὶ ἔδωκαν τὸν τοῖχόν μου ὡσ συνεχόμενον ἐμοῦ καὶ αὐτῶν καὶ ἐβεβήλωσαν τὸ ὄνομα τὸ ἅγιόν μου ἐν ταῖσ ἀνομίαισ αὐτῶν, αἷσ ἐποίουν. καὶ ἐξέτριψα αὐτοὺσ ἐν θυμῷ μου καὶ ἐν φόνῳ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 43:8)

Synonyms

  1. the front-door

Related

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

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