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ἔκπεμψις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔκπεμψις ἔκπεμψεως

Structure: ἐκπεμψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)kpe/mpw

Sense

  1. a sending out or forth

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

  • καὶ ὅτι εἰ εὕροι τισ τὸν ἐχθρὸν αὐτοῦ ἐν θλίψει καὶ ἐκπέμψει αὐτὸν ἐν ὁδῷ ἀγαθῇ, καὶ Κύριοσ ἀποτίσει αὐτῷ ἀγαθά, καθὼσ πεποίηκασ σήμερον. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 24:20)
  • ἀντιλογίασ ἐγείρει πᾶσ κακόσ, ὁ δὲ Κύριοσ ἄγγελον ἀνελεήμονα ἐκπέμψει αὐτῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 17:12)
  • ἤδη δ’ ἀπ’ αὐτῶν ᾗ μὲν θλιβομένων, ᾗ δὲ μεταβαλλόντων ὕδατα δύναται συντελεῖσθαι, ἔτι τε ῥευμάτων κατ’ ἀποφορὰν ἀπὸ ἐπιτηδείων τόπων δι’ ἀέροσ κινουμένων, βιαιοτέρασ ἐπαρδεύσεωσ γινομένησ ἀπό τινων ἀθροισμάτων ἐπιτηδείων εἰσ τὰσ τοιαύτασ ἐκπέμψεισ. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, I, EPIKOUROS 99:4)
  • οὐδὲν γὰρ μᾶλλον αὐτὴ τά γε ἐκεῖ διέφθαρκεν, ἀλλ’ ἡ τότε ἔκπεμψισ τῶν ἀδυνάτων ἡμᾶσ ἐπιθυμοῦντασ ἤλεγξεν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 11:5)

Synonyms

  1. a sending out or forth

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

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