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δύναμις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 수학 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δύναμις δυνάμεως

Structure: δυναμι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from du/namai

Sense

  1. power, might, strength
  2. ability, skill
  3. power, authority, influence
  4. force of war
  5. manifestation of divine power: miracle
  6. faculty, capacity
  7. worth, value
  8. The force of a word: meaning
  9. (mathematics) square root
  10. (mathematics) power

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 πᾶσ ὁ λαὸσ αὐτοῦ καὶ αἱ δυνάμεισ αὐτοῦ ἐνακούουσι. πρὸσ δὲ τούτοισ, αὐτὸσ ἀνάκειται, ἐσθίει καὶ πίνει καὶ καθεύδει, (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 4:10)
  • Ὡσ δὲ ἤκουσεν Ἀντίοχοσ ὁ βασιλεὺσ τοὺσ λόγουσ τούτουσ, ὠργίσθη θυμῷ καὶ ἀπέστειλε καὶ συνήγαγε τὰσ δυνάμεισ πάσασ τῆσ βασιλείασ αὐτοῦ, παρεμβολὴν ἰσχυρὰν σφόδρα. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 3:27)
  • καὶ εἶδεν Ἰούδασ καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτοῦ, ὅτι ἐπληθύνθη τὰ κακὰ καὶ αἱ δυνάμεισ παρεμβάλλουσιν ἐν τοῖσ ὁρίοισ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἐπέγνωσαν τοὺσ λόγουσ τοῦ βασιλέωσ, οὓσ ἐνετείλατο ποιῆσαι τῷ λαῷ εἰσ ἀπώλειαν καὶ συντέλειαν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 3:42)
  • ἕωσ ἔτι αἱ δυνάμεισ ἐσκορπισμέναι ἦσαν ἀπὸ τῆσ παρεμβολῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 4:4)
  • καὶ ἀπὸ βασιλειῶν ἑτέρων καὶ ἀπὸ νήσων θαλασσῶν ἦλθον πρὸσ αὐτὸν δυνάμεισ μισθωταί. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 6:29)

Synonyms

  1. power

  2. ability

  3. power

  4. force of war

  5. worth

  6. square root

  7. power

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Source: Ancient Greek entries from Wiktionary

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