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τόπος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τόπος τόπου

Structure: τοπ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. place, location
  2. (rhetoric) commonplace
  3. position, office
  4. opportunity, possibility

Declension

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 διώδευσεν Ἅβραμ τὴν γῆν εἰσ τὸ μῆκοσ αὐτῆσ ἕωσ τοῦ τόπου Συχέμ, ἐπὶ τὴν δρῦν τὴν ὑψηλήν. οἱ δὲ Χαναναῖοι τότε κατῴκουν τὴν γῆν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 12:6)
  • καὶ ἐπορεύθη ὅθεν ἦλθεν εἰσ τὴν ἔρημον ἕωσ Βαιθήλ, ἕωσ τοῦ τόπου, οὗ ἦν ἡ σκηνὴ αὐτοῦ τὸ πρότερον, ἀνὰ μέσον Βαιθὴλ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον Ἀγγαί, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 13:3)
  • Ὁ δὲ Θεὸσ εἶπε τῷ Ἅβραμ μετὰ τὸ διαχωρισθῆναι τὸν Λὼτ ἀπ̓ αὐτοῦ. ἀνάβλεψον τοῖσ ὀφθαλμοῖσ σου καὶ ἴδε ἀπὸ τοῦ τόπου, οὗ νῦν σύ εἶ, πρὸσ βορρᾶν καὶ λίβα καὶ ἀνατολὰσ καὶ θάλασσαν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 13:14)
  • Εἶπαν δὲ οἱ ἄνδρεσ ἢ πρὸσ Λώτ. εἰσί σοι ὧδε γαμβροὶ ἢ υἱοὶ ἢ θυγατέρεσ̣ ἢ εἴτισ σοι ἄλλοσ ἐστὶν ἐν τῇ πόλει, ἐξάγαγε ἐκ τοῦ τόπου τούτου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 19:12)
  • ἐξῆλθε δὲ Λὼτ καὶ ἐλάλησε πρὸσ τοὺσ γαμβροὺσ αὐτοῦ τοὺσ εἰληφότασ τὰσ θυγατέρασ αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπεν. ἀνάστητε καὶ ἐξέλθετε ἐκ τοῦ τόπου τούτου, ὅτι ἐκτρίβει Κύριοσ τὴν πόλιν. ἔδοξε δὲ γελοιάζειν ἐναντίον τῶν γαμβρῶν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 19:14)

Synonyms

  1. place

  2. position

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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