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τρίβολος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τρίβολος τρίβολον

Structure: τριβολ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: = tribelh/s

Sense

  1. a caltrop, a three-spiked implement
  2. a prickly plant, a burr, thistle
  3. a threshing-machine, boards with sharp stones fixed in the bottom

Examples

  • ἀκάνθασ καὶ τριβόλουσ ἀνατελεῖ σοι, καὶ φαγῇ τὸν χόρτον τοῦ ἀγροῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 3:18)
  • καὶ τὸν λαὸν τὸν ὄντα ἐν αὐτῇ ἐξήγαγε καὶ ἔθηκεν ἐν τῷ πρίονι καὶ ἐν τοῖσ τριβόλοισ τοῖσ σιδηροῖσ καὶ ὑποτομεῦσι σιδηροῖσ καὶ διήγαγεν αὐτοὺσ διὰ τοῦ πλινθείου. καὶ οὕτωσ ἐποίησε πάσαισ ταῖσ πόλεσιν υἱῶν Ἀμμών. καὶ ἐπέστρεψε Δαυὶδ καὶ πᾶσ ὁ λαὸσ εἰσ Ἱερουσαλήμ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 12:31)
  • τρίβολοι καὶ παγίδεσ ἐν ὁδοῖσ σκολιαῖσ, ὁ δὲ φυλάσσων τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ψυχὴν ἀφέξεται αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 22:5)
  • καὶ ἐξαρθήσονται βωμοὶ Ὦν, ἁμαρτήματα τοῦ Ἰσραήλ. ἄκανθαι καὶ τρίβολοι ἀναβήσονται ἐπὶ τὰ θυσιαστήρια αὐτῶν. καὶ ἐροῦσι τοῖσ ὄρεσι. καλύψατε ἡμᾶσ, καὶ τοῖσ βουνοῖσ. πέσατε ἐφ̓ ἡμᾶσ. ‐ (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 10:8)
  • πρῶτον μὲν ἐχρῆν, ὥσπερ πόκου ἐν βαλανείῳ ἐκπλύναντασ τὴν οἰσπώτην, ἐκ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐπὶ κλίνησ ἐκραβδίζειν τοὺσ μοχθηροὺσ καὶ τοὺσ τριβόλουσ ἀπολέξαι, καὶ τούσ γε συνισταμένουσ τούτουσ καὶ τοὺσ πιλοῦντασ ἑαυτοὺσ ἐπὶ ταῖσ ἀρχαῖσι διαξῆναι καὶ τὰσ κεφαλὰσ ἀποτῖλαι· (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Agon, antepirrheme20)

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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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