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ἀφήγησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀφήγησις

Structure: ἀφηγησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: From a)fhge/omai

Sense

  1. a telling, narrating, telling

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἀφήγησις ἀφηγήσει ἀφηγήσεις
Genitive ἀφηγήσεως ἀφηγήσοιν ἀφηγήσεων
Dative ἀφηγήσει ἀφηγήσοιν ἀφηγήσεσιν*
Accusative ἀφήγησιν ἀφηγήσει ἀφηγήσεις
Vocative ἀφήγησι ἀφηγήσει ἀφηγήσεις

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

  • ἀλλὰ καθεκτέον γὰρ καὶ τὰ πάθη τῷ νόμῳ τῆσ γραφῆσ, ὡσ οὐκ ὀλοφυρμῶν οἰκείων ὁ καιρόσ, ἀλλ’ ἀφηγήσεωσ πραγμάτων. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 24:1)
  • περὶ τῆσ ἀφηγήσεωσ τοῦ Ἰνδῶν βασιλέωσ. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, 52)
  • ἐμοὶ γὰρ ἐξ ἀρχῆσ ἠθέλησεν ὁ λόγοσ ἀπὸ πολλῶν καὶ οὐκ ἀξίων ἀφηγήσεωσ, ὧν ἃ ἕκαστοι παρὰ σφίσι λέγουσιν, ἀποκρῖναι τὰ ἀξιολογώτατα. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 11 2:4)
  • ἐξ ὧν οὐ μόνον ὁ δῆμοσ καὶ ἡ βουλὴ μειζόνωσ ἦγον αὐτόν, ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν ὑποτελῶν ἕκαστον ἐθνῶν, οἱ μὲν ὡμιληκότεσ ἁλισκόμενοι τῇ χάριτι τῆσ ἐντεύξεωσ, οἱ δὲ πύστει τῆσ ἐκείνων ἀφηγήσεωσ παραλαμβάνοντεσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 248:1)

Synonyms

  1. a telling

Similar forms

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

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