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ἁφή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἁφή

Structure: ἁφ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a(/ptw

Sense

  1. a lighting, kindling, lighting
  2. a touching, touch, the sense of touch

Declension

First 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

  • ἐγὼ ἔσομαι αὐτῷ εἰσ πατέρα, καὶ αὐτὸσ ἔσται μοι εἰσ υἱόν. καὶ ἐὰν ἔλθῃ ἡ ἀδικία αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐλέγξω αὐτὸν ἐν ράβδῳ ἀνδρῶν καὶ ἐν ἁφαῖσ υἱῶν ἀνθρώπων. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 7:14)
  • "κατ’ Ἐπίκουρον ἁφαῖσ καὶ περιπλοκαῖσ; (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 247)
  • καὶ οὐδὲν οἰόμαι δεινόν, εἰ μὴ πλησιάζων ὁ θεὸσ ὥσπερ ἄνθρωποσ, ἀλλ’ ἑτέραισ τισὶν ἁφαῖσ δι’ ἑτέρων καὶ ψαύσεσι τρέπει καὶ ὑποπίμπλησι θειοτέρασ γονῆσ τὸ θνητόν. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 17:1)

Synonyms

  1. a lighting

  2. a touching

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

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