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δέησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δέησις

Structure: δεησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: de/omai

Sense

  1. an entreating, asking: a prayer, entreaty

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 ἔδωκα τὸ πρόσωπόν μου πρὸσ Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν τοῦ ἐκζητῆσαι προσευχὴν καὶ δεήσεισ ἐν νηστείαισ καὶ σάκκῳ καὶ σποδῷ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 9:3)
  • ἐσθὴσ ἐπὶ τούτοισ ἁλουργὶσ καὶ ὁ βίοσ οἱο͂σ ἁβρότατοσ, ὕπνοσ ἐφ̓ ὅσον ἥδιστοσ, φίλων πρόσοδοι καὶ δεήσεισ καὶ τὸ ἅπαντασ ὑποπτήσσειν καὶ προσκυνεῖν, καὶ οἱ μὲν ἑώθεν πρὸσ ταῖσ θύραισ ἄνω καὶ κάτω περιπατήσουσιν, ἐν αὐτοῖσ δὲ καὶ Κλεαίνετοσ καὶ Δημόκριτοσ οἱ πάνυ, καὶ προσελθοῦσί γε αὐτοῖσ καὶ πρὸ τῶν ἄλλων εἰσδεχθῆναι ἀξιοῦσι θυρωροὶ ἑπτὰ ἐφεστῶτεσ, εὐμεγέθεισ βάρβαροι, προσαραξάτωσαν ἐσ τὸ μέτωπον εὐθὺ τὴν θύραν, οἱᾶ νῦν αὐτοὶ ποιοῦσιν. (Lucian, 38:1)
  • ἐγὼ δὲ πρὸσ τὰσ δεήσεισ ἐπικλασθεὶσ τοὺσ μὲν στρατιώτασ τῆσ ὁρμῆσ ἐπέσχον, αὐτὸσ δέ, καὶ γὰρ ἑσπέρα κατέλαβεν, μετὰ τῶν ὁπλιτῶν ἀπὸ τῆσ πολιορκίασ ὑποστρέψασ περὶ τὴν τοῦ σώματοσ θεραπείαν ἐγινόμην. (Flavius Josephus, 392:1)
  • "ποῦ δὲ αἱ δεήσεισ, αἷσ ἐξελομένη τὸν ἐπιβουλεύσαντα τῷ ἀδελφῷ πολέμου καὶ κακῶν ἐμπέπληκασ ἡμᾶσ ; (Plutarch, Artaxerxes, chapter 6 5:2)
  • οὐ γὰρ ἀγνοεῖτε, ὦ ἄνδρεσ, οὔτε τὰσ παρασκευὰσ τῶν κρινομένων οὔτε τὰσ δεήσεισ τῶν ἐξαιτουμένων, ἀλλ’ ἀκριβῶσ ἐπίστασθε ὅτι χρημάτων ἕνεκα καὶ χάριτοσ πολλοὶ ἐπείσθησαν τῶν μαρτύρων ἢ ἀμνημονεῖν ἢ μὴ ἐλθεῖν ἢ ἑτέραν πρόφασιν εὑρεῖν. (Lycurgus, Speeches, 28:2)

Synonyms

  1. an entreating

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

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