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ἐπιφυλλίς

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιφυλλίς ἐπιφυλλίδος

Structure: ἐπιφυλλιδ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: fu/llon

Sense

  1. the small grapes left for gleaners, mere gleanings.

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 εἶπε πρὸσ αὐτούσ. τί ἐποίησα νῦν καθὼσ ὑμεῖσ̣ ἢ οὐχὶ κρεῖσσον ἐπιφυλλὶσ Ἐφραὶμ ἢ τρυγητὸσ Ἀβιέζερ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 8:2)
  • ΟΙΜΟΙ, ὅτι ἐγενήθην ὡσ συνάγων καλάμην ἐν ἀμήτῳ, καὶ ὡσ ἐπιφυλλίδα ἐν τρυγητῷ, οὐχ ὑπάρχοντοσ βότρυοσ τοῦ φαγεῖν τὰ πρωτόγονα. οἴμοι, ψυχή, (Septuagint, Prophetia Michaeae 7:1)
  • εἰ κλέπται εἰσῆλθον πρόσ σε ἢ λῃσταὶ νυκτόσ, ποῦ ἂν ἀπερρίφησ̣ οὐκ ἂν ἔκλεψαν τὰ ἱκανὰ ἑαυτοῖσ̣ καὶ εἰ τρυγηταὶ εἰσῆλθον πρὸσ σέ, οὐκ ἂν ὑπελίποντο ἐπιφυλλίδα̣ (Septuagint, Prophetia Abdiae 1:5)
  • εἶπα. πλὴν φοβεῖσθέ με καὶ δέξασθε παιδείαν, καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐξολοθρευθῆτε ἐξ ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτῆσ, πάντα ὅσα ἐξεδίκησα ἐπ̓ αὐτήν. ἑτοιμάζου, ὄρθρισον, ἔφθαρται πᾶσα ἡ ἐπιφυλλὶσ αὐτῶν. ‐ (Septuagint, Prophetia Sophoniae 3:7)
  • Εἰσέλθοι πᾶσα ἡ κακία αὐτῶν κατὰ πρόσωπόν σου, καὶ ἐπιφύλλισον αὐτοῖσ, ὃν τρόπον ἐποίησαν ἐπιφυλλίδα περὶ πάντων τῶν ἁμαρτημάτων μου, ὅτι πολλοὶ οἱ στεναγμοί μου, καὶ καρδία μου λυπεῖται. (Septuagint, Lamentationes 1:23)

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

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