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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative πυλών πυλῶνε πυλῶνες
Genitive πυλῶνος πυλώνοιν πυλώνων
Dative πυλῶνι πυλώνοιν πυλῶσιν*
Accusative πυλῶνα πυλῶνε πυλῶνας
Vocative πυλών πυλῶνε πυλῶνες

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 ἐποίησε Ροβοὰμ ὁ βασιλεὺσ ὅπλα χαλκᾶ ἀντ̓ αὐτῶν. καὶ ἐπέθεντο ἐπ̓ αὐτὸν οἱ ἡγούμενοι τῶν παρατρεχόντων οἱ φυλάσσοντεσ τὸν πυλῶνα οἴκου βασιλέωσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 14:8)
  • καὶ ἀνέστη καὶ ἐπορεύθη εἰσ Σαρεπτὰ καὶ ἧλθεν εἰσ τὸν πυλῶνα τῆσ πόλεωσ, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐκεῖ γυνὴ χήρα συνέλεγε ξύλα. καὶ ἐβόησεν ὀπίσω αὐτῆσ Ἠλιοὺ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ. λαβὲ δή μοι ὀλίγον ὕδωρ εἰσ ἄγγοσ καὶ πίομαι. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 17:10)
  • καὶ ἐξῆλθον οἱ υἱοὶ Ἀμμὼν καὶ παρατάσσονται εἰσ πόλεμον παρὰ τὸν πυλῶνα τῆσ πόλεωσ, καὶ οἱ βασιλεῖσ οἱ ἐλθόντεσ παρενέβαλον καθ̓ ἑαυτοὺσ ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 19:9)
  • καὶ ἔβαλον κλήρουσ κατὰ τὸν μικρὸν καὶ κατὰ τὸν μέγα κατ̓ οἴκουσ πατριῶν αὐτῶν εἰσ πυλῶνα καὶ πυλῶνα. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 26:13)

Synonyms

  1. a gateway

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

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