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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 οἱ θυρωροὶ ἐφ̓ ἑκάστου πυλῶνοσ. οὐκ ἔστι παραβῆναι ἕκαστον τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ἐφημερίαν, οἱ γὰρ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτῶν οἱ Λευῖται ἡτοίμασαν αὐτοῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 1:15)
  • Ἐνστάντοσ δὲ τοῦ ἑβδόμου μηνὸσ καὶ ὄντων τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ ἑκάστου ἐν τοῖσ ἰδίοισ, συνήχθησαν ὁμοθυμαδὸν εἰσ τὸ εὐρύχωρον τοῦ πρώτου πυλῶνοσ τοῦ πρὸσ τῇ ἀνατολῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 5:46)
  • καὶ ἔστησαν οἱ ἱερεῖσ καὶ οἱ Λευῖται κατὰ φυλὰσ ἐστολισμένοι ἐπὶ τῶν ἔργων Κυρίου Θεοῦ Ἰσραὴλ ἀκολούθωσ τῇ Μωυσέωσ βίβλῳ καὶ οἱ θυρωροὶ ἐφ̓ ἑκάστου πυλῶνοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 7:9)
  • καὶ συνήχθη πᾶν τὸ πλῆθοσ ὁμοθυμαδὸν ἐπὶ τὸ εὐρύχωρον τοῦ πρὸσ ἀνατολὰσ τοῦ ἱεροῦ πυλῶνοσ (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 9:38)
  • καὶ ἀνεγίνωσκεν ἐν τῷ πρὸ τοῦ ἱεροῦ πυλῶνοσ εὐρυχώρῳ, ἐξ ὄρθρου ἕωσ μέσησ ἡμέρασ, ἐνώπιον ἀνδρῶν τε καὶ γυναικῶν, καὶ ἀπέδωκαν πᾶν τὸ πλῆθοσ τὸν νοῦν εἰσ τὸν νόμον. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 9:41)

Synonyms

  1. a gateway

Related

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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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