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ἐφημέριος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐφημέριος ἐφημέριη ἐφημέριον

Structure: ἐφημερι (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: h(me/ra

Sense

  1. on, for or during the day, the day through, by day
  2. for a day only, for the day, for the day only, creatures of a day
  3. hired for the day

Declension

First/Second 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 οὗτοι ψαλτῳδοὶ ἄρχοντεσ τῶν πατριῶν τῶν Λευιτῶν, διατεταγμέναι ἐφημερίαι, ὅτι ἡμέρα καὶ νὺξ ἐπ̓ αὐτοῖσ ἐν τοῖσ ἔργοισ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 9:33)
  • τούτοισ αἱ διαιρέσεισ τῶν πυλῶν τοῖσ ἄρχουσι τῶν δυνατῶν, ἐφημερίαι καθὼσ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ αὐτῶν λειτουργεῖν ἐν οἴκῳ Κυρίου. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 26:12)
  • καὶ ἰδοὺ αἱ ἐφημερίαι τῶν ἱερέων καὶ τῶν Λευιτῶν εἰσ πᾶσαν λειτουργίαν οἴκου Κυρίου καὶ μετὰ σοῦ ἐν πάσῃ πραγματείᾳ καὶ πᾶσ πρόθυμοσ ἐν σοφίᾳ κατὰ πᾶσαν τέχνην καὶ οἱ ἄρχοντεσ καὶ πᾶσ ὁ λαὸσ εἰσ πάντασ τοὺσ λόγουσ σου. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 28:21)

Synonyms

  1. for a day only

  2. hired for the day

Related

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

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