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ἄλειμμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄλειμμα ἄλειμματος

Structure: ἀλειμματ (Stem)

Etym.: a)lei/fw

Sense

  1. anything used for anointing, unguent, fat, oil

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 τοῖσ υἱοῖσ Ἰσραὴλ λαλήσεισ λέγων. ἔλαιον ἄλειμμα χρίσεωσ ἅγιον ἔσται τοῦτο ὑμῖν εἰσ τὰσ γενεὰσ ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 30:31)
  • δοθῆναι τοῖσ πενθοῦσι Σιὼν δόξαν ἀντὶ σποδοῦ, ἄλειμμα εὐφροσύνησ τοῖσ πενθοῦσι, καταστολὴν δόξησ ἀντὶ πνεύματοσ ἀκηδίασ. καὶ κληθήσονται γενεαὶ δικαιοσύνησ, φύτευμα Κυρίου εἰσ δόξαν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 61:3)
  • ἄρτον ἐπιθυμιῶν οὐκ ἔφαγον, καὶ κρέασ καὶ οἶνοσ οὐκ εἰσῆλθεν εἰσ τὸ στόμα μου, καὶ ἄλειμμα οὐκ ἠλειψάμην ἕωσ πληρώσεωσ τριῶν ἑβδομάδων ἡμερῶν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 10:3)
  • ἀμέλειαι δὲ σώματοσ ἕπονται τῷ κακῷ τούτῳ καὶ διαβολαὶ πρὸσ ἄλειμμα καὶ λουτρὸν καὶ τὴν ἄλλην δίαιταν ὧν πᾶν τοὐναντίον ἔδει, τὴν ψυχὴν πονοῦσαν αὐτὴν βοηθεῖσθαι διὰ τοῦ σώματοσ ἐρρωμένου. (Plutarch, Consolatio ad uxorem, section 6 7:1)
  • ἄλειμμα δὲ τὸ πρὸσ πυρὶ βέλτιον, ἂν ἀλέασ δέηται τὸ σῶμα, ταμιεύεται γὰρ αὑτῷ τῆσ θερμότητοσ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 17 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. anything used for anointing

Related

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

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