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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

  • μή ποτε εἴπωσι τὰ ἔθνη. ποῦ ἔστιν ὁ Θεὸσ αὐτῶν̣ καὶ γνωσθήτω ἐν τοῖσ ἔθνεσιν ἐνώπιον τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν ἡμῶν ἡ ἐκδίκησισ τοῦ αἵματοσ τῶν δούλων σου τοῦ ἐκκεχυμένου. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 78:10)
  • ταπείνωσον σφόδρα τὴν ψυχήν σου, ὅτι ἐκδίκησισ ἀσεβοῦσ πῦρ καὶ σκώληξ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 7:17)
  • ἐμπαιγμὸσ καὶ ὀνειδισμὸσ ὑπερηφάνων, καὶ ἡ ἐκδίκησισ ὡσ λέων ἐνεδρεύσει αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 27:28)
  • καὶ πᾶσαν πονηρίαν ἐξεζήτησαν, ἕωσ ἐκδίκησισ ἔλθῃ ἐπ̓ αὐτούσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 47:25)
  • κατακρατήσατε αὐτήν. παρελύθησαν αἱ χεῖρεσ αὐτῆσ, ἔπεσαν αἱ ἐπάλξεισ αὐτῆσ καὶ κατεσκάφη τὸ τεῖχοσ αὐτῆσ, ὅτι ἐκδίκησισ παρὰ Θεοῦ ἐστιν. ἐκδικεῖτε ἐπ’ αὐτήν. καθὼσ ἐποίησε, ποιήσατε αὐτῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 27:15)

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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