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ἐκδίκησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐκδίκησις ἐκδίκησεως

Structure: ἐκδικησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)kdike/w

Sense

  1. an avenging

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐκδίκησις ἐκδικήσει ἐκδικήσεις
Genitive ἐκδικήσεως ἐκδικήσοιν ἐκδικήσεων
Dative ἐκδικήσει ἐκδικήσοιν ἐκδικήσεσιν*
Accusative ἐκδίκησιν ἐκδικήσει ἐκδικήσεις
Vocative ἐκδίκησι ἐκδικήσει ἐκδικήσεις

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

  • ἰσχυρὸσ Κύριοσ ὁ διδοὺσ ἐκδικήσεισ ἐμοί, παιδεύων λαοὺσ ὑποκάτω μου (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 22:48)
  • καὶ ἐξολοθρεύσεισ τὸν οἶκον Ἀχαὰβ τοῦ κυρίου σου ἐκ προσώπου μου καὶ ἐκδικήσεισ τὰ αἵματα τῶν δούλων μου τῶν προφητῶν καὶ τὰ αἵματα πάντων τῶν δούλων Κυρίου ἐκ χειρὸσ Ἰεζάβελ (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 9:7)
  • καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν πρὸσ τὸν βασιλέα καὶ εἶπον. ἕωσ πότε οὐ ποιήσῃ κρίσιν καὶ ἐκδικήσεισ τοὺσ ἀδελφοὺσ ἡμῶν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 6:22)
  • ὁ Θεὸσ ὁ διδοὺσ ἐκδικήσεισ ἐμοί, καὶ ὑποτάξασ λαοὺσ ὑπ̓ ἐμέ, (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 17:48)
  • ὡσ σὴσ ἐκτρώγων καὶ βαδίζων ἐπὶ κανόνοσ ἐν ἡμέρᾳ σκοπιᾶσ. οὐαὶ οὐαί, αἱ ἐκδικήσεισ σου ἥκασι, νῦν ἔσονται κλαυθμοὶ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Michaeae 7:4)

Synonyms

  1. an avenging

Similar forms

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

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