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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 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)
  • τὸν ἀλλότριον ἀπαιτήσεισ ὅσα ἐὰν ᾖ σοι παῤ αὐτῷ, τῷ δὲ ἀδελφῷ σου ἄφεσιν ποιήσεισ τοῦ χρέουσ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 15:3)
  • 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)
  • καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοί μου καὶ οἱ γνωστοί μου καὶ ἐγὼ ἐθήκαμεν ἑαυτοῖσ ἀργύριον καὶ σῖτον. ἐγκατελίπομεν δὴ τὴν ἀπαίτησιν ταύτην. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 5:10)
  • καὶ λαοὶ τῆσ γῆσ οἱ φέροντεσ τοὺσ ἀγορασμοὺσ καὶ πᾶσαν πρᾶσιν ἐν ἡμέρᾳ τοῦ σαββάτου ἀποδόσθαι, οὐκ ἀγορῶμεν παρ’ αὐτῶν ἐν σαββάτῳ καὶ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἁγίᾳ. καὶ ἀνήσομεν τὸ ἔτοσ τὸ ἕβδομον καὶ ἀπαίτησιν πάσησ χειρόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 10:31)
  • ἦν δὲ ἄρα Ταρκυνίῳ λόγοσ μὲν ἐλάχιστοσ τῶν χρημάτων, ἡ δ’ ἀπαίτησισ ἅμα πεῖρα τοῦ δήμου καὶ κατασκευὴ προδοσίασ, καὶ ταῦτ’ ἔπραττον οἱ πρέσβεισ ὑπομένοντεσ ἐπὶ τῇ τῶν χρημάτων προφάσει, τὰ μὲν ἀποδίδοσθαι, τὰ δὲ φυλάττειν, τὰ δ’ ἀποπέμπειν φάσκοντεσ, ἄχρι οὗ διέφθειραν οἴκουσ δύο τῶν καλῶν κάγαθῶν νομιζομένων, τὸν Ἀκυλλίων τρεῖσ ἔχοντα βουλευτάσ καὶ δύο τὸν Οὐιτελλίων. (Plutarch, Publicola, chapter 3 2:4)

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

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