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ῥοῖζος

Second declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥοῖζος

Etym.: Formed from the sound.

Sense

  1. the whistling or whizzing, whistling or piping sound
  2. rushing motion, a rush, swing

Examples

  • καὶ διεμέτρησε χιλίουσ, καὶ οὐκ ἠδύνατο διελθεῖν, ὅτι ἐξύβριζε τὸ ὕδωρ ὡσ ροῖζοσ χειμάρρου, ὃν οὐ διαβήσονται. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 47:5)
  • ἥ τε οὖν τῶν ὀξυβελῶν καὶ καταπελτῶν βία πολλοὺσ ἅμα διήλαυνεν, καὶ τῶν ὑπὸ τῆσ μηχανῆσ ἀφιεμένων πετρῶν ὁ ῥοῖζοσ ἐπάλξεισ τε ἀπέσυρεν καὶ γωνίασ ἀπέθρυπτε πύργων. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 298:1)
  • τῶν οὖν ὀργάνων φοβερώτεροσ ὁ ῥοῖζοσ, τῶν δὲ βαλλομένων ἦν [ὁ] ψόφοσ. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 302:1)

Synonyms

  1. the whistling or whizzing

  2. rushing motion

Related

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

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