Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

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 ἔλαβον καὶ αὐτοὶ κλήρουσ ἐφημεριῶν κατὰ τὸν μικρὸν καὶ κατὰ τὸν μέγαν, τελείων καὶ μανθανόντων. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 25:8)
  • ΚΑΙ ἐξεκκλησίασε Δαυὶδ πάντασ τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ Ἰσραήλ, ἄρχοντασ τῶν κριτῶν, καὶ πάντασ τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ τῶν ἐφημεριῶν τῶν περὶ τὸ σῶμα τοῦ βασιλέωσ καὶ ἄρχοντασ τῶν χιλιάδων καὶ τῶν ἑκατοντάδων καὶ τοὺσ γαζοφύλακασ καὶ τοὺσ ἐπὶ τῶν ὑπαρχόντων αὐτοῦ καὶ πάσησ τῆσ κτήσεωσ τοῦ βασιλέωσ καὶ τῶν υἱῶν αὐτοῦ σὺν τοῖσ εὐνούχοισ καὶ τοὺσ δυνάστασ καὶ τοὺσ μαχητὰσ τῆσ στρατιᾶσ ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 28:1)
  • καὶ τῶν ἐφημεριῶν τῶν ἱερέων καὶ τῶν Λευιτῶν εἰσ πᾶσαν ἐργασίαν λειτουργίασ οἴκου Κυρίου καὶ τῶν ἀποθηκῶν τῶν λειτουργησίμων σκευῶν τῆσ λατρείασ οἴκου Κυρίου, (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 28:13)

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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