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ἀπόκλεισις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπόκλεισις

Structure: ἀποκλεισι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)poklei/w

Sense

  1. a shutting up, a shutting, against
  2. a shutting out, a complete stoppage to their works

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 ἀποκλείσει σε Κύριοσ σήμερον εἰσ τὴν χεῖρά μου, καὶ ἀποκτενῶ σε καὶ ἀφελῶ τὴν κεφαλήν σου ἀπὸ σοῦ καὶ δώσω τὰ κῶλά σου καὶ τὰ κῶλα παρεμβολῆσ ἀλλοφύλων ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τοῖσ πετεινοῖσ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ τοῖσ θηρίοισ τῆσ γῆσ, καὶ γνώσεται πᾶσα ἡ γῆ, ὅτι ἔστι Θεὸσ ἐν Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 17:25)
  • εἰ οὖν οὗτοσ πρῶτον μὲν ἡμᾶσ Βυζαντίου ἀποκλείσει, ἔπειτα δὲ τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἁρμοσταῖσ παραγγελεῖ εἰσ τὰσ πόλεισ μὴ δέχεσθαι ὡσ ἀπιστοῦντασ Λακεδαιμονίοισ καὶ ἀνόμουσ ὄντασ, ἔτι δὲ πρὸσ Ἀναξίβιον τὸν ναύαρχον οὗτοσ ὁ λόγοσ περὶ ἡμῶν ἥξει, χαλεπὸν ἔσται καὶ μένειν καὶ ἀποπλεῖν· (Xenophon, Anabasis, , chapter 6 14:1)

Synonyms

  1. a shutting up

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

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