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θεῖος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεῖος

Structure: θει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the brother of one's father or mother, uncle

Declension

Second 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 Κύριοσ ἔβρεξεν ἐπὶ Σόδομα καὶ Γόμορρα θεῖον, καὶ πῦρ παρὰ Κυρίου ἐξ οὐρανοῦ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 19:24)
  • καὶ ἐνέπλησα αὐτὸν πνεῦμα θεῖον σοφίασ καὶ συνέσεωσ καὶ ἐπιστήμησ ἐν παντὶ ἔργῳ διανοεῖσθαι (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 31:3)
  • καὶ ἐνέπλησεν αὐτὸν πνεῦμα θεῖον σοφίασ καὶ συνέσεωσ καὶ ἐπιστήμησ πάντων (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 35:31)
  • θεῖον καὶ ἅλα κατακεκαυμένον, πᾶσα ἡ γῆ αὐτῆσ οὐ σπαρήσεται οὐδὲ ἀνατελεῖ, οὐδὲ μὴ ἀναβῇ ἐπ̓ αὐτὴν πᾶν χλωρόν, ὥσπερ κατεστράφη Σόδομα και Γόμορρα, Ἀδαμὰ καὶ Σεβωί̈μ, ἃσ κατέστρεψε Κύριοσ ἐν θυμῷ καὶ ὀργῇ, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 29:22)
  • ἐπιβρέξει ἐπὶ ἁμαρτωλοὺσ παγίδασ, πῦρ καὶ θεῖον καὶ πνεῦμα καταιγίδοσ ἡ μερὶσ τοῦ ποτηρίου αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 10:6)

Synonyms

  1. the brother of one's father or mother

Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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