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θεόπεμπτος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεόπεμπτος θεόπεμπτον

Structure: θεοπεμπτ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: pe/mpw

Sense

  1. sent by the gods

Examples

  • ἔκλαυσαν δὲ ταῦτα παθόντασ αὐτοὺσ οἱ κωμῆται, καὶ πένθοσ ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ ἤγειραν οἱο͂ν εἰκὸσ ἐπὶ θεοπέμπτῳ κακῷ καὶ τὸν ἴδιον ἕκαστοσ ἀπεθρήνει· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 6 21:2)

Synonyms

  1. sent by the gods

Related

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

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