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ἀπόστολος
ἀπόστολος
Ancient Greek
- (4th AD Koine) IPA(key): /apóstolos/
- (10th AD Byzantine) IPA(key): /apóstolos/
- (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /apóstolos/
Noun
ἀπόστολος • (apóstolos) m (genitive ἀποστόλου); second declension
- one who is sent
- messenger, envoy, ambassador
- (biblical) apostle
Inflection
Second declension of ἀπόστολος, ἀποστόλου
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ὁ ἀπόστολος | τὼ ἀποστόλω | οἱ ἀπόστολοι |
| Genitive | τοῦ ἀποστόλου | τοῖν ἀποστόλοιν | τῶν ἀποστόλων |
| Dative | τῷ ἀποστόλῳ | τοῖν ἀποστόλοιν | τοῖς ἀποστόλοις |
| Accusative | τὸν ἀπόστολον | τὼ ἀποστόλω | τοὺς ἀποστόλους |
| Vocative | ἀπόστολε | ἀποστόλω | ἀπόστολοι |
Descendants
- English: apostle
- Gothic: 𐌰𐍀𐌰𐌿𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌿𐌻𐌿𐍃 (apaustaulus)
- Italian: apostolo
- Latin: apostolus
- Russian: апостол (apóstol)
References
- ἀπόστολος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀπόστολος in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- «ἀπόστολος» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- «ἀπόστολος» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
- “G652”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- expedition idem, page 293.
- fleet idem, page 327.