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ἐπιπόθησις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: epipothēsis

Principal Part: ἐπιπόθησις ἐπιπόθησεως

Structure: ἐπιποθησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from ἐπιποθέω

Sense

  1. a longing after

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἐπιπόθησις ἐπιποθήσει ἐπιποθήσεις
Genitive ἐπιποθήσεως ἐπιποθήσοιν ἐπιποθήσεων
Dative ἐπιποθήσει ἐπιποθήσοιν ἐπιποθήσεσι(ν)
Accusative ἐπιπόθησιν ἐπιποθήσει ἐπιποθήσεις
Vocative ἐπιπόθησι ἐπιποθήσει ἐπιποθήσεις

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 ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ, οὐκ ἐπιποθήσεις ἐπ᾿ αὐτῷ οὐδ᾿ 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

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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