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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

  • ἔλαβε δὲ Ἰοθὸρ ὁ γαμβρὸσ Μωυσῆ Σεπφώραν τὴν γυναῖκα Μωυσῆ μετὰ τὴν ἄφεσιν αὐτῆς (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 18:2)
  • τῷ δὲ ἑβδόμῳ ἄφεσιν ποιήσεισ καὶ ἀνήσεισ αὐτήν, καὶ ἔδονται οἱ πτωχοὶ τοῦ ἔθνουσ σου, τὰ δὲ ὑπολειπόμενα ἔδεται τὰ ἄγρια θηρία. οὕτω ποιήσεισ τὸν ἀμπελῶνά σου καὶ τὸν ἐλαιῶνά σου. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 23:11)
  • καὶ ὁ ἐξαποστέλλων τὸν χίμαρον τὸν διεσταλμένον εἰσ ἄφεσιν πλυνεῖ τὰ ἱμάτια καὶ λούσεται τὸ σῶμα αὐτοῦ ὕδατι καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα εἰσελεύσεται εἰσ τὴν παρεμβολήν. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 16:26)
  • καὶ ἁγιάσετε τὸ ἔτοσ τὸν πεντηκοστὸν ἐνιαυτὸν καὶ διαβοήσετε ἄφεσιν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ πᾶσι τοῖσ κατοικοῦσιν αὐτήν. ἐνιαυτὸσ ἀφέσεωσ σημασία αὕτη ἔσται ὑμῖν, καὶ ἀπελεύσεται εἷσ ἕκαστοσ εἰσ τὴν κτῆσιν αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἕκαστοσ εἰσ τὴν πατριὰν αὐτοῦ ἀπελεύσεσθε. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 25:10)
  • ἐὰν δὲ ἔσχατον μετὰ τήν ἄφεσιν ἁγιάσῃ τὸν ἀγρὸν αὐτοῦ, προσλογιεῖται αὐτῷ ὁ ἱερεὺσ τὸ ἀργύριον ἐπὶ τὰ ἔτη τὰ ἐπίλοιπα, ἕωσ εἰσ τὸν ἐνιαυτὸν τῆσ ἀφέσεωσ, καὶ ἀνθυφαιρεθήσεται ἀπὸ τῆσ συντιμήσεωσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 27:18)

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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