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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)
  • καὶ εἰσελεύσῃ καὶ ἀποκλείσεισ τὴν θύραν κατὰ σοῦ καὶ κατὰ τῶν υἱῶν σου καὶ ἀποχεεῖσ εἰσ τὰ σκεύη ταῦτα καὶ τὸ πληρωθὲν ἀρεῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 4:4)
  • 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)
  • τῶν δὲ ἀντεπικαλούντων, ὅτι αὐτοὶ σφίσιν ἥκουσι πολεμήσοντεσ, λόγοι συνισταμένων ἐγίγνοντο, καὶ τὰ ἐγκλήματα ἀλλήλοισ προύφερον, οἱ μὲν τὴν ἀπόκλεισιν τοῦ Βρεντεσίου καὶ τὴν ἀφαίρεσιν τοῦ Καληνοῦ στρατοῦ, οἱ δὲ τὴν ἀποτείχισιν τοῦ Βρεντεσίου καὶ πολιορκίαν καὶ τὴν τῆσ Αὐσονίδοσ καταδρομὴν καὶ τὸ συνθέσθαι μὲν Αἠνοβάρβῳ σφαγεῖ Γαϊού Καίσαροσ, συνθέσθαι δὲ Πομπηίῳ κοινῷ πολεμίῳ. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 5, chapter 6 10:2)
  • χρόνοσ ἦν εἰσ τὴν ἀπόκλεισιν τοῦ ναοῦ γεγονὼσ ἀπὸ τῆσ κατασκευῆσ ἔτη τρία καὶ τεσσαράκοντα καὶ τριακόσια. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 488:1)

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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