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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

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

  • καί διελεύσομαι ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ ἐν τῇ νυκτὶ ταύτῃ καὶ πατάξω πᾶν πρωτότοκον ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπου ἕωσ κτήνουσ καὶ ἐν πᾶσι τοῖσ θεοῖσ τῶν Αἰγυπτίων ποιήσω τὴν ἐκδίκησιν. ἐγὼ Κύριοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 12:12)
  • ἐκδίκει τὴν ἐκδίκησιν υἱῶν Ἰσραὴλ ἐκ τῶν Μαδιανιτῶν, καὶ ἔσχατον προστεθήσῃ πρὸσ τὸν λαόν σου. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 31:2)
  • καὶ ἐλάλησε Μωυσῆσ πρὸσ τὸν λαὸν λέγων. ἐξοπλίσατε ἐξ ὑμῶν ἄνδρασ καὶ παρατάξασθε ἔναντι Κυρίου ἐπὶ Μαδιὰν ἀποδοῦναι ἐκδίκησιν παρὰ τοῦ Κυρίου τῇ Μαδιάν. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 31:3)
  • καὶ οἱ Αἰγύπτιοι ἔθαπτον ἐξ αὐτῶν τοὺσ τεθνηκότασ πάντασ, οὓσ ἐπάταξε Κύριοσ, πᾶν πρωτότοκον ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ, καὶ ἐν τοῖσ θεοῖσ αὐτῶν ἐποίησε τὴν ἐκδίκησιν Κύριοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 33:4)
  • ἡ δὲ εἶπε πρὸσ αὐτόν. πάτερ, ἤνοιξασ τὸ στόμα σου πρὸσ Κύριον̣ ποίησόν μοι ὃν τρόπον ἐξῆλθεν ἐκ στόματόσ σου, ἐν τῷ ποιῆσαί σοι Κύριον ἐκδίκησιν τῶν ἐχθρῶν σου ἀπὸ τῶν υἱῶν Ἀμμών. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 11:36)

Synonyms

  1. an avenging

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

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