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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 διεῖλεν αὐτοὺσ Δαυὶδ ἐφημερίασ τοῖσ υἱοῖσ Λευί, τῷ Γεδσών, Καὰθ καὶ Μεραρί. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 23:6)
  • καὶ ἐποίησαν οἱ Λευῖται καὶ πᾶσ Ἰούδα κατὰ πάντα, ὅσα ἐνετείλατο αὐτοῖσ Ἰωδαὲ ὁ ἱερεύσ, καὶ ἔλαβον ἕκαστοσ τοὺσ ἄνδρασ αὐτοῦ ἀπ’ ἀρχῆσ τοῦ σαββάτου ἕωσ ἐξόδου τοῦ σαββάτου, ὅτι οὐ κατέλυσεν Ἰωδαὲ ὁ ἱερεὺσ τὰσ ἐφημερίασ. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 23:8)
  • καὶ ἐνεχείρισεν Ἰωδαὲ ὁ ἱερεὺσ τὰ ἔργα οἴκου Κυρίου διὰ χειρὸσ ἱερέων καὶ Λευιτῶν καὶ ἀνέστησε τὰσ ἐφημερίασ τῶν ἱερέων καὶ τῶν Λευιτῶν, ἃσ διέστειλε Δαυὶδ ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον Κυρίου καὶ ἀνενέγκαι ὁλοκαυτώματα Κυρίῳ, καθὼσ γέγραπται ἐν νόμῳ Μωυσῆ, ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ καὶ ἐν ᾠδαῖσ διὰ χειρὸσ Δαυίδ. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 23:18)
  • καὶ ἔταξεν Ἐζεκίασ τὰσ ἐφημερίασ τῶν ἱερέων καὶ τῶν Λευιτῶν καὶ τὰσ ἐφημερίασ ἑκάστου κατὰ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ λειτουργίαν τοῖσ ἱερεῦσι καὶ τοῖσ Λευίταισ εἰσ τὴν ὁλοκαύτωσιν καὶ εἰσ τὴν θυσίαν τοῦ σωτηρίου καὶ αἰνεῖν καὶ ἐξομολογεῖσθαι καὶ λειτουργεῖν ἐν ταῖσ πύλαισ ἐν ταῖσ αὐλαῖσ οἴκου Κυρίου. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 31:2)

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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