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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

  • προσελθόντεσ δὲ πρὸσ τὸν ἄνθρωπον τὸν ἐπὶ τοῦ οἴκου τοῦ Ἰωσὴφ ἐλάλησαν αὐτῷ ἐν τῷ πυλῶνι τοῦ οἴκου (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 43:18)
  • καὶ οὕτωσ ἐποίησε τῷ πυλῶνι τοῦ ναοῦ, φλιαὶ ξύλων ἀρκευθίνων, στοαὶ τετραπλῶσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 6:32)
  • καὶ ἐγένετο πρωὶ̈ καὶ ἐξῆλθεν καὶ ἔστη ἐν τῷ πυλῶνι τῆσ πόλεωσ καὶ εἶπεν πρὸσ πάντα τὸν λαόν Δίκαιοι ὑμεῖσ, ἰδοὺ ἐγώ εἰμι συνεστράφην ἐπὶ τὸν κύριόν μου καὶ ἀπέκτεινα αὐτόν. καὶ τίσ ἐπάταξεν πάντασ τούτουσ; (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 10:9)
  • τὸ τρίτον ἐξ ὑμῶν εἰσελθέτω τὸ σάββατον καὶ φυλάξατε φυλακὴν οἴκου τοῦ βασιλέωσ ἐν τῷ πυλῶνι καὶ τὸ τρίτον ἐν τῇ πύλῃ τῶν ὁδῶν καὶ τὸ τρίτον τῆσ πύλησ ὀπίσω τῶν παρατρεχόντων. καὶ φυλάξατε τὴν φυλακὴν τοῦ οἴκου. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 11:6)
  • οὐ δυνηθέντων δὲ ἁπάντων ἀκολουθῆσαι τῶν στρατιωτῶν, ὁ μὲν Ἑρμοκράτησ μετ’ ὀλίγων προσελθὼν τῷ κατὰ τὴν Ἀχραδινὴν πυλῶνι, καὶ τῶν φίλων τινὰσ εὑρὼν προκατειλημμένουσ τοὺσ τόπουσ, ἀνελάμβανε τοὺσ ἀφυστεροῦντασ· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xiii, chapter 74 13:1)

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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