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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 εἶπε τῷ νεανίᾳ αὐτοῦ. δεῦρο καὶ ἐγγίσωμεν ἑνὶ τῶν τόπων καὶ αὐλισθησόμεθα ἐν Γαβαὰ ἢ ἐν Ραμά. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 19:13)
  • ἰδοὺ γὰρ αὐτὸσ νῦν κέκρυπται ἐν ἑνὶ τῶν βουνῶν ἢ ἐν ἑνὶ τῶν τόπων, καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῷ ἐπιπεσεῖν αὐτοῖσ ἐν ἀρχῇ καὶ ἀκούσῃ ὁ ἀκούων καὶ εἴπῃ. ἐγενήθη θραῦσισ ἐν τῷ λαῷ τῷ ὀπίσω Ἀβεσσαλώμ, (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 17:9)
  • καὶ ἥξομεν πρὸσ αὐτὸν εἰσ ἕνα τῶν τόπων, οὗ ἐὰν εὕρωμεν αὐτὸν ἐκεῖ, καὶ παρεμβαλοῦμεν ἐπ’ αὐτόν, ὡσ πίπτει δρόσοσ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, καὶ οὐχ ὑπολειψόμεθα ἐν αὐτῷ καὶ τοῖσ ἀνδράσι τοῖσ μετ’ αὐτοῦ καί γε ἕνα. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 17:12)
  • καὶ πᾶσ ὁ καταλιπόμενοσ ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν τόπων, οὗ αὐτὸσ παροικεῖ ἐκεῖ, καὶ λήψονται αὐτὸν ἄνδρεσ τοῦ τόπου αὐτοῦ ἐν ἀργυρίῳ καὶ χρυσίῳ καὶ ἀποσκευῇ καὶ κτήνεσι μετὰ τοῦ ἑκουσίου εἰσ οἶκον τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae II 1:4)
  • καὶ ἐγένετο ὡσ ἤλθοσαν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι οἱ οἰκοῦντεσ ἐχόμενα αὐτῶν καὶ εἴποσαν ἡμῖν. ἀναβαίνουσιν ἐκ πάντων τῶν τόπων ἐφ’ ἡμᾶσ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 4:6)

Synonyms

  1. place

  2. position

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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