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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 ἐπακούσαι ὑμῶν τῶν δεήσεων καὶ καταλλαγείη ὑμῖν καὶ μὴ ὑμᾶσ ἐγκαταλίποι ἐν καιρῷ πονηρῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 1:5)
  • καὶ νῦν εἰσάκουσον, Κύριε ὁ Θεὸσ ἡμῶν, τῆσ προσευχῆσ τοῦ δούλου σου καὶ τῶν δεήσεων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐπίφανον τὸ πρόσωπόν σου ἐπὶ τὸ ἁγίασμά σου τὸ ἔρημον ἕνεκέν σου, Κύριε. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 9:17)
  • ὑπὸ τούτων φασὶ καὶ τοιούτων τὸν Κάτωνα λόγων καὶ δεήσεων μαλασσόμενον οἴκοι καὶ κατ’ ἀγοράν ἐκβιασθῆναι μόλισ, καὶ προσελθεῖν πρὸσ τὸν ὁρ́κον ἔσχατον ἁπάντων πλὴν ἑνὸσ Φαωνίου τῶν φίλων καὶ συνήθων. (Plutarch, Cato the Younger, chapter 32 6:1)
  • τούτων τῶν δεήσεων οὐ παντελῶσ ἄτεγκτον οὐδ’ ἀτενῆ λέγουσιν ἀκροᾶσθαι τὸν Ὀκτάβιον, ἀλλὰ καὶ δακρύων ὑποπίμπλασθαι τὰ ὄμματα καὶ σιωπᾶν ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον, ὡσ μέντοι πρὸσ τοὺσ πλουσίουσ καὶ τοὺσ κτηματικοὺσ συνεστῶτασ ἀπέβλεψεν, αἰδεσθεὶσ δοκεῖ καὶ φοβηθεὶσ τὴν παρ’ ἐκείνοισ ἀδοξίαν ὑποστῆναι πᾶν δεινὸν οὐκ ἀγεννῶσ καὶ κελεῦσαι πράττειν ὃ βούλεται τὸν Τιβέριον, οὕτω δὴ τοῦ νόμου κυρωθέντοσ ὁ μὲν Τιβέριοσ τῶν ἀπελευθέρων τινὶ προσέταξεν ἀπὸ τοῦ βήματοσ ἑλκύσαι τὸν Ὀκτάβιον· (Plutarch, Tiberius Gracchus, chapter 12 3:1)
  • καὶ ἐρῶν μὲν βλαβερόσ τε καὶ ἀηδήσ, λήξασ δὲ τοῦ ἔρωτοσ εἰσ τὸν ἔπειτα χρόνον ἄπιστοσ, εἰσ ὃν πολλὰ καὶ μετὰ πολλῶν ὁρ́κων τε καὶ δεήσεων ὑπισχνούμενοσ μόγισ κατεῖχε τήν γ’ ἐν τῷ τότε συνουσίαν ἐπίπονον οὖσαν φέρειν δι’ ἐλπίδα ἀγαθῶν. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 96:1)

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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