Ὑφέρποντα

creeping, creeping under

Translated by Catharine Roth27 Apr 2011Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 25 words

Translation

[Meaning] coming upon, arriving.1 "For God darkened their thinking because of their lawlessnesses, and they did not see the famine which was creeping upon them."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὑφέρποντα· ἐπερχόμενον, παραγινόμενον. ἐπεσκότει γὰρ αὐτῶν ταῖς γνώμαις διὰ τὰς παρανομίας ὁ θεός, καὶ τὸν ὑφέρποντα λιμὸν αὐτοῖς οὐκ ἔβλεπον.

Betacode
*(ufe/rponta: e)perxo/menon, paragino/menon. e)pesko/tei ga\r au)tw=n tai=s gnw/mais dia\ ta\s paranomi/as o( qeo/s, kai\ to\n u(fe/rponta limo\n au)toi=s ou)k e)/blepon. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is present active participle of u(fe/rpw, masculine accusative singular. ↩
  2. 2An approximation of Josephus, Jewish War 5.343 (see web address 1). ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 27 Dec 2022
  1. added a link — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

“creeping, creeping under.” Suda On Line. Tr. Catharine Roth. 27 April 2011. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/upsilon/711>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/upsilon/711>.

Translation by Catharine Roth for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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