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σύσκιος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σύσκιος σύσκιον

Structure: συσκι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: skia/

Sense

  1. closely shaded, thickly shaded, a closely-shaded place

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ᾠκοδόμησαν ἑαυτοῖσ ὑψηλὰ καὶ στήλασ καὶ ἄλση ἐπὶ πάντα βουνὸν ὑψηλὸν καὶ ὑποκάτω παντὸσ ξύλου συσκίου. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 14:4)
  • καὶ γνώσεσθε διότι ἐγὼ Κύριοσ ἐν τῷ εἶναι τοὺσ τραυματίασ ὑμῶν ἐν μέσῳ τῶν εἰδώλων ὑμῶν κύκλῳ τῶν θυσιαστηρίων ὑμῶν, ἐπὶ πάντα βουνὸν ὑψηλὸν καὶ ὑποκάτω δένδρου συσκίου, οὗ ἔδωκαν ἐκεῖ ὀσμὴν εὐωδίασ πᾶσι τοῖσ εἰδώλοισ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 6:13)
  • αἰσθόμενοσ δὲ ὁ Σερτώριοσ καί προλοχίσασ τὴν ὁδόν ἐπανερχομένῳ τῷ Ἀκυΐνῳ τρισχιλίουσ ἄνδρασ ἔκ τινοσ συσκίου χαράδρασ ἐπανίστησιν, αὐτὸσ δὲ κατὰ στόμα προσβαλὼν τρέπεται, καί τοὺσ μὲν διαφθείρει, τοὺσ δὲ λαμβάνει ζῶντασ. (Plutarch, Sertorius, chapter 13 6:2)

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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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