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ἐπιθύμημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπιθύμημα ἐπιθύμηματος

Structure: ἐπιθυμηματ (Stem)

Etym.: from e)piqume/w

Sense

  1. an object of desire

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

  • ὅτι ταύτην τὴν ὥραν αὔριον ἀποστελῶ τοὺσ παῖδάσ μου πρόσ σε, καὶ ἐρευνήσουσι τὸν οἶκόν σου καὶ τοὺσ οἴκουσ τῶν παίδων σου καὶ ἔσται πάντα τὰ ἐπιθυμήματα τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτῶν, ἐφ̓ ἃ ἂν ἐπιβάλωσι τὰσ χεῖρασ αὐτῶν, καὶ λήψονται. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 21:6)
  • στέφανον χρυσοῦν ἐπάνω κιδάρεωσ, ἐκτύπωμα σφραγῖδοσ ἁγιάσματοσ, καύχημα τιμῆσ, ἔργον ἰσχύοσ, ἐπιθυμήματα ὀφθαλμῶν κοσμούμενα ὡραῖα. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 45:12)
  • ἐπόνεσεν Ἐφραίμ. τὰσ ρίζασ αὐτοῦ ἐξηράνθη, καρπὸν οὐκ ἔτι μὴ ἐνέγκῃ. διότι καὶ ἐὰν γεννήσωσιν, ἀποκτενῶ τὰ ἐπιθυμήματα κοιλίασ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 9:16)
  • Ἐμνήσθη Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἡμερῶν ταπεινώσεωσ αὐτῆσ καὶ ἀπωσμῶν αὐτῆσ. πάντα τὰ ἐπιθυμήματα αὐτῆσ, ὅσα ἦν ἐξ ἡμερῶν ἀρχαίων, ἐν τῷ πεσεῖν τὸν λαὸν αὐτῆσ εἰσ χεῖρασ θλίβοντοσ καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ βοηθῶν αὐτῇ, ἰδόντεσ οἱ ἐχθροὶ αὐτῆσ ἐγέλασαν ἐπὶ μετοικεσίᾳ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Lamentationes 1:8)
  • Χεῖρα αὐτοῦ ἐξεπέτασε θλίβων ἐπὶ πάντα τὰ ἐπιθυμήματα αὐτῆσ. εἶδε γὰρ ἔθνη εἰσελθόντα εἰσ τὸ ἁγίασμα αὐτῆσ, ἃ ἐνετείλω μὴ εἰσελθεῖν αὐτὰ εἰσ ἐκκλησίαν σου. (Septuagint, Lamentationes 1:11)

Synonyms

  1. an object of desire

Related

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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