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ζωός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ζωός ζωή ζωόν

Structure: ζω (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. alive, living

Declension

First/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

  • νῦν οὖν μὴ λυπεῖσθε, μηδὲ σκληρὸν ὑμῖν φανήτω, ὅτι ἀπέδοσθέ με ὧδε. εἰσ γὰρ ζωὴν ἀπέστειλέ με ὁ Θεὸσ ἔμπροσθεν ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 45:5)
  • καὶ κατωδύνων αὐτῶν τὴν ζωὴν ἐν τοῖσ ἔργοισ τοῖσ σκληροῖσ, τῷ πηλῷ καὶ τῇ πλινθείᾳ καὶ πᾶσι τοῖσ ἔργοισ τοῖσ ἐν τοῖσ πεδίοισ, κατὰ πάντα τὰ ἔργα, ὧν κατεδουλοῦντο αὐτοὺσ μετὰ βίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 1:14)
  • Ἰδοὺ δέδωκα πρὸ προσώπου σου σήμερον τὴν ζωήν καὶ τὸν θάνατον, τὸ ἀγαθὸν καὶ τὸ κακόν. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 30:15)
  • διαμαρτύρομαι ὑμῖν σήμερον τόν τε οὐρανὸν καὶ τὴν γῆν, τὴν ζωὴν καὶ τὸν θάνατον δέδωκα πρὸ προσώπου ὑμῶν, τὴν εὐλογίαν καὶ τὴν κατάραν. ἔκλεξαι τὴν ζωὴν σύ, ἵνα ζήσῃσ σὺ καὶ τὸ σπέρμα σου, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 30:19)

Synonyms

  1. alive

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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