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ἔλεγξις

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔλεγξις ἔλεγξεως

Structure: ἐλεγξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: = e)/legxos

Sense

  1. a conviction

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἔλεγξις ἐλέγξει ἐλέγξεις
Genitive ἐλέγξεως ἐλέγξοιν ἐλέγξεων
Dative ἐλέγξει ἐλέγξοιν ἐλέγξεσιν*
Accusative έ̓λεγξιν ἐλέγξει ἐλέγξεις
Vocative έ̓λεγξι ἐλέγξει ἐλέγξεις

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

  • οὐ μισήσεισ τὸν ἀδελφόν σου τῇ διανοίᾳ σου. ἐλεγμῷ ἐλέγξεισ τὸν πλησίον σου καί οὐ λήψῃ δἰ αὐτὸν ἁμαρτίαν. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 19:17)
  • ὁ παιδεύων ἔθνη οὐχὶ ἐλέγξει̣ ὁ διδάσκων ἄνθρωπον γνῶσιν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 93:10)
  • παιδεύσει με δίκαιοσ ἐν ἐλέει καὶ ἐλέγξει με, ἔλαιον δὲ ἁμαρτωλοῦ μὴ λιπανάτω τὴν κεφαλήν μου. ὅτι ἔτι καὶ ἡ προσευχή μου ἐν ταῖσ εὐδοκίαισ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 140:5)
  • οὐθὲν ἧττον ἐλέγξει ὑμᾶσ. εἰ δὲ καὶ κρυφῇ πρόσωπα θαυμάσεσθε, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 13:10)
  • τί γάρ̣ μὴ ἀνθρώπου μου ἡ ἔλεγξισ̣ ἢ διατί οὐ θυμωθήσομαι̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iob 21:4)
  • καὶ δὴ οἶδα ὅτι ἐκ χειρόσ μου ἡ ἔλεγξίσ ἐστι, καὶ ἡ χεὶρ αὐτοῦ βαρεῖα γέγονεν ἐπ̓ ἐμῷ στεναγμῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 23:2)

Synonyms

  1. a conviction

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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