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πυλών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πυλών πυλῶνος

Structure: πυλων (Stem)

Etym.: pu/lh

Sense

  1. a gateway, gate-house

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 ὁ πυλὼν τῆσ πλευρᾶσ τῆσ ὑποκάτωθεν ὑπὸ τὴν ὠμίαν τοῦ οἴκου τὴν δεξιάν, καὶ ἑλικτὴ ἀνάβασισ εἰσ τὸ μέσον καὶ ἐκ τῆσ μέσησ ἐπὶ τὰ τριώροφα, (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 6:12)
  • πυλὼν μὲν ὑψηλὸσ ἀναβάσεισ πλατείασ ἔχων, ὑπτίασ μᾶλλον ἢ ὀρθίασ πρὸσ τὴν τῶν ἀνιόντων εὐμάρειαν εἰσιόντα δὲ τοῦτον ἐκδέχεται κοινὸσ οἶκοσ εὐμεγέθησ, ἱκανὴν ἔχων ὑπηρέταισ καὶ ἀκολούθοισ διατριβήν, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ δὲ τὰ ἐσ τρυφὴν παρεσκευασμένα οἰκήματα βαλανείῳ δ’ οὖν καὶ ταῦτα πρεπωδέστατα, χαρίεσσαι καὶ φωτὶ πολλῷ καταλαμπόμεναι ὑποχωρήσεισ. (Lucian, (no name) 5:1)
  • ᾧ πάλιν ὁμοίωσ κατὰ μὲν τὴν μέσην πλευρὰν προστὰσ ἑτέρα παρέκειτο ὄπισθεν, καὶ τετράθυροσ ἔφερεν εἰσ αὐτὴν πυλών, ἐξ ἀριστερῶν δὲ καὶ δεξιῶν θυρίδεσ ὑπέκειντο εὐάειαν παρέχουσαι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 3724)
  • καὶ γράψετε αὐτὰ ἐπὶ τὰσ φλιὰσ τῶν οἰκιῶν ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν πυλῶν ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 6:9)
  • καὶ γράψετε αὐτὰ ἐπὶ τὰσ φλιὰσ τῶν οἰκιῶν ὑμῶν καὶ τῶν πυλῶν ὑμῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 11:20)
  • καὶ εὐφρανθήσεσθε ἐναντίον Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ ὑμῶν, ὑμεῖσ καὶ οἱ υἱοὶ ὑμῶν καὶ αἱ θυγατέρεσ ὑμῶν καὶ οἱ παῖδεσ ὑμῶν καὶ αἱ παιδίσκαι ὑμῶν καὶ ὁ Λευίτησ ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν πυλῶν ὑμῶν, ὅτι οὐκ ἔστιν αὐτῷ μερὶσ οὐδὲ κλῆροσ μεθ̓ ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 12:12)
  • καὶ ἀνίστανται ἄνδρεσ Ἰσραὴλ καὶ Ἰούδα καὶ ἠλάλαξαν καὶ κατεδίωξαν ὀπίσω αὐτῶν ἕωσ εἰσόδου Γὲθ καὶ ἕωσ τῆσ πύλησ Ἀσκάλωνοσ, καὶ ἔπεσον τραυματίαι τῶν ἀλλοφύλων ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ τῶν πυλῶν καὶ ἕωσ Γὲθ καὶ ἕωσ Ἀκκαρών. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 17:30)
  • καὶ Δαυὶδ ἐκάθητο ἀνὰ μέσον τῶν δύο πυλῶν. καὶ ἐπορεύθη ὁ σκοπὸσ εἰσ τὸ δῶμα τῆσ πύλησ πρὸσ τὸ τεῖχοσ καὶ ἐπῇρε τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶδε καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀνὴρ τρέχων μόνοσ ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 18:24)

Synonyms

  1. a gateway

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

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