Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

ἐπιπόθησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιπόθησις ἐπιπόθησεως

Structure: ἐπιποθησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)pipoqe/w

Sense

  1. a longing after

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

  • οὐ συνθελήσεισ αὐτῷ καὶ οὐκ εἰσακούσῃ αὐτοῦ καὶ οὐ φείσεται ὁ ὀφθαλμόσ σου ἐπ̓ αὐτῷ, οὐκ ἐπιποθήσεισ ἐπ̓ αὐτῷ οὐδ̓ οὐ μὴ σκεπάσῃσ αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 13:9)
  • ὁ δὲ ἐπισχὼν αὐτὸν ἔτι λέγοντα εἶπεν, "οὐκ ἂν ηὐξάμην ἐπιποθῆσαί με Ῥωμαίουσ, εἰ τοιαύτην ἤλπισα τὴν ἐπιπόθησιν αὐτοῖσ ἔσεσθαι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 5:22)
  • οὐ μόνον δὲ ἐν τῇ παρουσίᾳ αὐτοῦ, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐν τῇ παρακλήσει ᾗ παρεκλήθη ἐφ’ ὑμῖν, ἀναγγέλλων ἡμῖν τὴν ὑμῶν ἐπιπόθησιν, τὸν ὑμῶν ὀδυρμόν, τὸν ὑμῶν ζῆλον ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ, ὥστε με μᾶλλον χαρῆναι. (PROS KORINQIOUS B, chapter 7 8:1)
  • ἰδοὺ γὰρ αὐτὸ τοῦτο τὸ κατὰ θεὸν λυπηθῆναι πόσην κατειργάσατο ὑμῖν σπουδήν, ἀλλὰ ἀπολογίαν, ἀλλὰ ἀγανάκτησιν, ἀλλὰ φόβον, ἀλλὰ ἐπιπόθησιν, ἀλλὰ ζῆλον, ἀλλὰ ἐκδίκησιν· (PROS KORINQIOUS B, chapter 7 12:1)

Synonyms

  1. a longing after

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

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