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πῦρ

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: πῦρ πυρός

Structure: πυρ (Stem)

Etym.: not used in pl.

Sense

  1. a fire, a funerary fire
  2. a sacrificial fire

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 εἶπεν ἄνθρωποσ τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ. δεῦτε πλινθεύσωμεν πλίνθουσ καὶ ὀπτήσωμεν αὐτὰσ πυρί. καὶ ἐγένετο αὐτοῖσ ἡ πλίνθοσ εἰσ λίθον, καὶ ἄσφαλτοσ ἦν αὐτοῖσ ὁ πηλόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 11:3)
  • ὤφθη δὲ αὐτῷ ἄγγελοσ Κυρίου ἐν πυρὶ φλογὸσ ἐκ τοῦ βάτου, καὶ ὁρᾷ ὅτι ὁ βάτοσ καίεται πυρί, ὁ δὲ βάτοσ οὐ κατεκαίετο. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 3:2)
  • καὶ φάγονται τὰ κρέα τῇ νυκτὶ ταύτῃ. ὀπτὰ πυρὶ καὶ ἄζυμα ἐπὶ πικρίδων ἔδονται. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 12:8)
  • οὐκ ἔδεσθε ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν ὠμὸν οὐδὲ ἡψημένον ἐν ὕδατι, ἀλλ̓ ἢ ὀπτὰ πυρί, κεφαλὴν σὺν τοῖσ ποσὶ καὶ τοῖσ ἐνδοσθίοισ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 12:9)

Synonyms

  1. a fire

  2. a sacrificial fire

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