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τοῖχος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τοῖχος

Etym.: tei=xos

Sense

  1. the wall of a house or court, the sides of a ship

Examples

  • καὶ εἰσ γῆν Χαλδαίων, καὶ αὕτη ἠρήμωται ἀπὸ τῶν Ἀσσυρίων, οὐδὲ ἐκεῖ σοι ἀνάπαυσισ ἔσται, ὅτι ὁ τοῖχοσ αὐτῆσ πέπτωκεν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 23:13)
  • καὶ ἰδοὺ πέπτωκεν ὁ τοῖχοσ, καὶ οὐκ ἐροῦσι πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ. ποῦ ἐστιν ἡ ἀλοιφὴ ὑμῶν, ἣν ἠλείψατε̣ (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 13:12)
  • καὶ συντελέσω τὸν θυμόν μου ἐπὶ τὸν τοῖχον καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἀλείφοντασ αὐτόν, καὶ πεσεῖται. καὶ εἶπα πρὸσ ὑμᾶσ. οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ τοῖχοσ οὐδὲ οἱ ἀλείφοντεσ αὐτὸν (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 13:15)
  • ὅτι φαίνεται δήπουθεν αὐτῷ βαλανεῖον οὐ τὸ ὄροσ ἀλλὰ τὸ βαλανεῖον, καὶ θύρα οὐχ ὁ τοῖχοσ ἀλλ’ ἡ θύρα· (Plutarch, Adversus Colotem, section 27 4:3)
  • μάθε οὖν ὅτι ἀρσενικῶσ εἴρηκε τὸν τίγριν Ἄλεξισ ἐν Πυραύνῳ οὕτωσ ἄνοιγ’, ἄνοιγε τὴν θύραν ἐλάνθανον πάλαι περιπατῶν ἀνδριάσ, 6 ἀλέτων ὄνοσ, ποτάμιοσ ἵπποσ, τοῖχοσ, ὁ Σελεύκου τίγρισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 57 2:2)

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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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