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πρωτοτόκος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρωτοτόκος

Structure: πρωτοτοκ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: cf. prwto/tokos

Sense

  1. bearing her first-born

Examples

  • καὶ ταῦτα τὰ ὀνόματα τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσμαὴλ κατ̓ ὀνόματα τῶν γενεῶν αὐτοῦ. πρωτότοκοσ Ἰσμαὴλ Ναβαιώθ, καὶ Κηδὰρ καὶ Ναβδεὴλ καὶ Μασσὰμ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 25:13)
  • ἐξῆλθε δὲ ὁ πρωτότοκοσ πυρράκησ, ὅλοσ ὡσεὶ δορὰ δασύσ. ἐπωνόμασε δὲ τὸ ὄνομα αὐτοῦ Ἡσαῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 25:25)
  • καὶ εἶπεν Ἰακὼβ τῷ πατρί. ἐγὼ Ἡσαῦ ὁ πρωτότοκόσ σου. πεποίηκα καθὰ ἐλάλησάσ μοι. ἀναστὰσ κάθισον καὶ φάγε ἀπὸ τῆσ θήρασ μου, ὅπωσ εὐλογήσῃ με ἡ ψυχή σου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 27:19)
  • καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ Ἰσαὰκ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ. τίσ εἶ σύ̣ ὁ δὲ εἶπεν. ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ υἱόσ σου ὁ πρωτότοκοσ Ἡσαῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 27:32)
  • υἱοὶ Λείασ. πρωτότοκοσ Ἰακὼβ Ρουβήν, Συμεών, Λευί, Ἰούδασ, Ἰσσάχαρ, Ζαβουλών. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 35:23)

Synonyms

  1. bearing her first-born

Derived

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

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