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σωτήρ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σωτήρ σωτῆρος

Structure: σωτηρ (Stem)

Etym.: sw/zw

Sense

  1. saviour, deliverer, preserver (often as an epithet of protecting gods, especially Zeus)

Declension

Third 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 ἔδωκασ αὐτοὺσ ἐν χειρὶ θλιβόντων αὐτούσ, καὶ ἔθλιψαν αὐτούσ. καὶ ἀνεβόησαν πρόσ σε ἐν καιρῷ θλίψεωσ αὐτῶν, καὶ σὺ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ σου ἤκουσασ καὶ ἐν οἰκτιρμοῖσ σου τοῖσ μεγάλοισ ἔδωκασ αὐτοῖσ σωτῆρασ καὶ ἔσωσασ αὐτοὺσ ἐκ χειρὸσ θλιβόντων αὐτούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 9:27)
  • ὧν ἕνεκα ἐλπὶσ ἀθάνατον τὴν ἐλευθερίαν αὐτοὺσ κεκτῆσθαι καὶ ἐν τοῖσ παρεληλυθόσι κινδύνοισ σωτῆρασ γενομένουσ τῆσ Ἑλλάδοσ περὶ τῶν μελλόντων προορᾶσθαι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 30 4:1)
  • ἰώ, βασίλεια γύναι χθονὸσ Ἀργείασ, παῖ Τυνδάρεω, καὶ τοῖν ἀγαθοῖν ξύγγονε κούροιν Διόσ, οἳ φλογερὰν αἰθέρ’ ἐν ἄστροισ ναίουσι, βροτῶν ἐν ἁλὸσ ῥοθίοισ τιμὰσ σωτῆρασ ἔχοντεσ· (Euripides, episode, anapests1)
  • καὶ οἱ χάριν ἔχειν ὁμολογήσαντεσ "ἂν λιμένοσ, ἔφη, τύχωμεν ἀπαλλαγέντεσ τοσούτου κλύδωνοσ, Σωτῆρασ ὑμᾶσ ἐπιφανεῖσ μετὰ τῶν θαλασσίων δαιμόνων ἐν τῇ πατρίδι ἱδρυσόμεθα ὡσ αἰσίωσ ἡμῖν ἐπιφανέντασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 5 2:4)
  • πῶσ δὲ φωσφόρεια, βακχεῖα, προτέλεια γάμων ἄξομεν, μὴ ἀπολιπόντεσ μηδὲ βακχεῖσ καὶ φωσφόρουσ καὶ προηροσίουσ καὶ σωτῆρασ; (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 22 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. saviour

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