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ἐπισκοπή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπισκοπή

Structure: ἐπισκοπ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a watching over, visitation
  2. the office of, an office

Declension

First 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

  • τί δ’ εἴ τισ τοῦ Ἡρακλέουσ τὰ τόξα κτήσαιτο μὴ Φιλοκτήτησ ὢν ὡσ δύνασθαι ἐντείνασθαί τε αὐτὰ καὶ ἐπίσκοπα τοξεῦσαι; (Lucian, Adversus indoctum et libros multos ementem, (no name) 5:7)
  • ἡ δευτέρα δὲ ἐπέλασισ σὺν δυοῖν λόγχαιν γίγνεται, καὶ ταύτασ χρὴ ἐξακοντίσαι ὀρθῷ ἐπελαύνοντα τῷ ἵππῳ ὡσ μάλιστα οἱο͂́ν τε ἐπίσκοπα. (Arrian, chapter 41 6:1)
  • ὁποῖα νίκησ μὴ κακῆσ ἐπίσκοπα, καὶ ταῦτα γῆθεν ἔκ τε ποντίασ δρόσου ἐξ οὐρανοῦ τε· (Aeschylus, Eumenides, episode14)
  • νῦν δέ μοι εἰπέ, τίνα εἶδεσ ἤδη πάντων ἀνθρώπων οὕτω ἐπίσκοπα τοξεύοντα; (Herodotus, The Histories, book 3, chapter 35 5:1)

Synonyms

  1. a watching over

  2. the office of

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

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