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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

  • ἐὰν δὲ γένηται ἡ ἄφεσισ τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ, καὶ προστεθήσεται ἡ κληρονομία αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὴν κληρονομίαν τῆσ φυλῆσ, οἷσ ἂν γένωνται γυναῖκεσ, καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ κληρονομίασ φυλῆσ πατριᾶσ ἡμῶν ἀφαιρεθήσεται ἡ κληρονομία αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 36:4)
  • καὶ οὕτω τὸ πρόσταγμα τῆσ ἀφέσεωσ. ἀφήσεισ πᾶν χρέοσ ἴδιον, ὃ ὀφείλει σοι ὁ πλησίον, καὶ τὸν ἀδελφόν σου οὐκ ἀπαιτήσεισ, ἐπικέκληται γὰρ ἄφεσισ Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 15:2)
  • ἡ γὰρ δὴ ξύνημα τῇ Κελτῶν φωνῇ καλουμένη ταύτῃ δὴ ἄφεσισ γίγνεται, ἐπείπερ οὐδὲ ἀσιδήρῳ ἀκοντίῳ εὐμαρὴσ ἀκοντίζεσθαι. (Arrian, chapter 42 4:2)
  • οἱ παροξυσμοὶ τοῖσι πλείστοισιν ἐν ἀρτίῃσι, περὶ δὲ τοὺσ παροξυσμοὺσ λήθη καὶ ἄφεσισ καὶ ἀφωνίη. (Hippocrates, Hippocrates Collected Works I, EPIDHMIWN A, 188)
  • Ἐν ἥπατι τοῦ αἵματοσ ἡ γέννα, καὶ ἐσ τὸ πᾶν ἔνθεν ἡ τοῦδε ἄφεσισ. (Aretaeus, The Extant Works of Aretaeus, The Cappadocian., ARETAIOU KAPPADOKOU OCEWN NOUSWN QERAPEUTIKON, 226)

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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