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ἀπαίτησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπαίτησις

Structure: ἀπαιτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a)paite/w

Sense

  1. a demanding back, formal demand

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 ἐβουλεύσατο καρδία μου ἐπ’ ἐμέ, καὶ ἐμαχεσάμην πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐντίμουσ καὶ τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ καὶ εἶπα αὐτοῖσ. ἀπαιτήσει ἀνὴρ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ, ἃ ὑμεῖσ ἀπαιτεῖτε. καὶ ἔδωκα ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ ἐκκλησίαν μεγάλην (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 5:7)
  • ὀλίγα δώσει καὶ πολλὰ ὀνειδίσει καὶ ἀνοίξει τὸ στόμα αὐτοῦ ὡσ κῆρυξ. σήμερον δανιεῖ καὶ αὔριον ἀπαιτήσει, μισητὸσ ἄνθρωποσ ὁ τοιοῦτοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 20:14)
  • μέριμνα ἀγρυπνίασ ἀπαιτήσει νυσταγμόν, καὶ ἀρρώστημα βαρὺ ἐκνήψει ὕπνοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 31:2)
  • ἐν συμποσίῳ οἴνου μὴ ἐλέγξῃσ τὸν πλησίον καὶ μὴ ἐξουδενώσῃσ αὐτὸν ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ αὐτοῦ. λόγον ὀνειδισμοῦ μὴ εἴπῃσ αὐτῷ, καὶ μὴ αὐτὸν θλίψῃσ ἐν ἀπαιτήσει. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 31:31)
  • ὁ δὲ Κύριοσ δίκαιοσ ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆσ καὶ οὐ μὴ ποιήσῃ ἄδικον. πρωί̈ πρωί̈ δώσει κρίμα αὐτοῦ εἰσ φῶσ καὶ οὐκ ἀπεκρύβη καὶ οὐκ ἔγνω ἀδικίαν ἐν ἀπαιτήσει καὶ οὐκ εἰσ νεῖκοσ ἀδικίαν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Sophoniae 3:5)

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

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