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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

  • ἐν ἡμέρᾳ ἐκδικήσεωσ ἀνταποδώσω, ἐν καιρῷ, ὅταν σφαλῇ ὁ ποῦσ αὐτῶν, ὅτι ἐγγὺσ ἡμέρα ἀπωλείασ αὐτοῖσ, καὶ πάρεστιν ἕτοιμα ὑμῖν. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 32:35)
  • μὴ ἀνάμενε ἐπιστρέψαι πρὸσ Κύριον καὶ μὴ ὑπερβάλλου ἡμέραν ἐξ ἡμέρασ. ἐξάπινα γὰρ ἐξελεύσεται ὀργὴ Κυρίου, καὶ ἐν καιρῷ ἐκδικήσεωσ ἐξολῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 5:7)
  • μνήσθητι θυμοῦ ἐν ἡμέραισ τελευτῆσ καὶ καιρὸν ἐκδικήσεωσ ἐν ἀποστροφῇ προσώπου. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 18:24)
  • ὁ ἀκούων ἐν Σινᾷ ἐλεγμὸν καὶ ἐν Χωρὴβ κρίματα ἐκδικήσεωσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 48:7)
  • ἥκασιν αἱ ἡμέραι τῆσ ἐκδικήσεωσ, ἥκασιν αἱ ἡμέραι τῆσ ἀνταποδόσεώσ σου, καὶ κακωθήσεται Ἰσραὴλ ὥσπερ ὁ προφήτησ ὁ παρεξεστηκώσ, ἄνθρωποσ ὁ πνευματοφόροσ. ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθουσ τῶν ἀδικιῶν σου ἐπληθύνθη μανία σου. (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 9:7)

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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