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στεῖρα?

Noun; Transliteration: steira

Principal Part: στεῖρα

Sense

  1. a ship's keel, the curved part of it, cutwater

Examples

  • καὶ ἦν Σάρα στεῖρα καὶ οὐκ ἐτεκνοποίει. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 11:30)
  • ἐδέετο δὲ Ἰσαὰκ Κυρίου περὶ Ρεβέκκας τῆς γυναικὸς αὐτοῦ, ὅτι στεῖρα ἦν. ἐπήκουσε δὲ αὐτοῦ ὁ Θεός, καὶ συνέλαβεν ἐν γαστρὶ Ρεβέκκα ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 25:21)
  • Ἰδὼν δὲ Κύριος ὁ Θεὸς ὅτι ἐμισεῖτο Λεία, ἤνοιξε τὴν μήτραν αὐτῆς. Ραχὴλ δὲ ἦν στεῖρα. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 29:31)
  • οὐκ ἔσται ἄγονος οὐδὲ στείρα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς σου. τὸν ἀριθμὸν τῶν ἡμερῶν σου ἀναπληρῶν ἀναπληρώσω. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 23:26)
  • εὐλογητός ἔσῃ παρὰ πάντα τὰ ἔθνη. οὐκ ἔσται ἐν ὑμῖν ἄγονος οὐδὲ στεῖρα καὶ ἐν τοῖς κτήνεσί σου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 7:14)

Synonyms

  1. a ship's keel

Similar forms

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

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