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ἄφεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄφεσις

Structure: ἀφεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)fi/hmi

Sense

  1. a letting go, dismissal, a quittance or discharge, exemption, a divorce
  2. a letting go, the starting-post, having made, one

Declension

Third 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 ὤφθησαν ἀφέσεισ θαλάσσησ, καὶ ἀπεκαλύφθη θεμέλια τῆσ οἰκουμένησ ἐν τῇ ἐπιτιμήσει Κυρίου, ἀπὸ πνοῆσ πνεύματοσ θυμοῦ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 22:16)
  • καὶ τὰ κτήνη τοῦ πεδίου ἀνέβλεψαν πρὸσ σέ, ὅτι ἐξηράνθησαν ἀφέσεισ ὑδάτων καὶ πῦρ κατέφαγε τὰ ὡραῖα τῆσ ἐρήμου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 1:20)
  • καὶ ἔσται ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἀποσταλάξει τὰ ὄρη γλυκασμόν, καὶ οἱ βουνοὶ ρυήσονται γάλα, καὶ πᾶσαι αἱ ἀφέσεισ Ἰούδα ρυήσονται ὕδατα, καὶ πηγὴ ἐξ οἴκου Κυρίου ἐξελεύσεται καὶ ποτιεῖ τὸν χειμάρρουν τῶν σχοίνων. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 4:18)
  • ἀφέσεισ ὑδάτων κατάξει ὁ ὀφθαλμόσ μου ἐπὶ τὸ σύντριμμα τῆσ θυγατρὸσ τοῦ λαοῦ μου. (Septuagint, Lamentationes 3:48)
  • καὶ ὅμωσ οὐ κατέπαυσεν αὐτὸν ἅτε γὰρ ἠσκημένοσ ἐν τῇ ὀρχηστικῇ, ῥᾳδίωσ, οἶμαι, διεδίδρασκεν τὰσ ἐπ’ αὐτὸν ἀφέσεισ τῶν ἀκοντίων. (Lucian, De saltatione, (no name) 8:8)

Synonyms

  1. a letting go

Related

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

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