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θήρα

First declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: θήρα

Sense

  1. a hunting of wild beasts, the chase
  2. eager pursuit
  3. the beast taken, spoil, booty, prey, game

Examples

  • ἠγάπησε δὲ Ἰσαὰκ τὸν Ἡσαῦ, ὅτι ἡ θήρα αὐτοῦ βρῶσισ αὐτῷ. Ρεβέκκα δὲ ἠγάπα τὸν Ἰακώβ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 25:28)
  • ἐλθέτω αὐτῷ παγίσ, ἣν οὐ γινώσκει, καὶ ἡ θήρα, ἣν ἔκρυψε, συλλαβέτω αὐτόν, καὶ ἐν τῇ παγίδι πεσεῖται ἐν αὐτῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 34:8)
  • Ω πόλισ αἱμάτων, ὅλη ψευδήσ, ἀδικίασ πλήρησ, οὐ ψηλαφηθήσεται θήρα. (Septuagint, Prophetia Nahum 3:1)
  • ἡ θήρα δέ ἐστιν ὄνων τε τῶν ἀγρίων καὶ στρουθῶν τῶν μεγάλων χαμαιπετῶν καὶ πιθήκων μάλιστα καὶ ἐλεφάντων ἐνίοτε· (Lucian, Dipsades 3:1)
  • θηρῶσιν δὲ καὶ Κελτοὶ ἀφαιροῦντεσ τὰ ἄρκυσ, ὅσοι γε οὐκ ἀπὸ κυνηγεσίων βιοτεύουσιν, αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἐν θήρᾳ καλοῦ ἕνεκα· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 3 1:1)

Synonyms

  1. a hunting of wild beasts

  2. the beast taken

Related

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

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