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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 πᾶσα προσευχὴ καὶ πᾶσα δέησισ, ἣ ἐὰν γένηται παντὶ ἀνθρώπῳ καὶ παντὶ λαῷ σου Ἰσραήλ, ἐὰν γνῷ ἄνθρωποσ τὴν ἀφὴν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν μαλακίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ διαπετάσῃ τὰσ χεῖρασ αὐτοῦ εἰσ τὸν οἶκον τοῦτον, (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 6:29)
  • ποικίλη δὲ ἦν τῶν εἰσ τοῦτο συλλεγομένων ἡ δέησισ ἐπὶ τοῖσ ἀνοσίωσ ὑπ’ ἐκείνου κατεγχειρουμένοισ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 1:21)
  • ἀφίκοιτό μου ἡ δέησισ πρὸσ Κύριον, ἔναντι δὲ αὐτοῦ στάζοι μου ὁ ὀφθαλμόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 16:20)
  • δέησισ πτωχοῦ ἐκ στόματοσ ἕωσ ὠτίων αὐτοῦ, καὶ τὸ κρίμα αὐτοῦ κατὰ σπουδὴν ἔρχεται. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 21:5)
  • θεραπεύων ἐν εὐδοκίᾳ δεχθήσεται, καὶ ἡ δέησισ αὐτοῦ ἕωσ νεφελῶν συνάψει. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 35:16)
  • Ἐγγισάτω ἡ δέησίσ μου ἐνώπιόν σου, Κύριε. κατὰ τὸ λόγιόν σου συνέτισόν με. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 118:169)

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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