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στρεβλός

First/Second declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: στρεβλός στρεβλή στρεβλόν

Structure: στρεβλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: stre/fw

Sense

  1. twisted, crooked, knit, wrinkled, cunning

Examples

  • ζυγὸσ καὶ ἱμὰσ κάμψουσι τράχηλον, καὶ οἰκέτῃ κακούργῳ στρέβλαι καὶ βάσανοι. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 33:27)
  • ἔνθα δή, ὦ φιλότησ, πολλὰ καὶ ἐλεεινὰ ἦν καὶ ἀκοῦσαι καὶ ἰδεῖν μαστίγων τε γὰρ ὁμοῦ ψόφοσ ἠκούετο καὶ οἰμωγὴ τῶν ἐπὶ τοῦ πυρὸσ ὀπτωμένων καὶ στρέβλαι καὶ κύφωνεσ καὶ τροχοί, καὶ ἡ Χίμαιρα ἐσπάραττεν καὶ ὁ Κέρβεροσ ἐδάρδαπτεν. (Lucian, Necyomantia, (no name) 14:2)

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

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