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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

  • πάντεσ οἱ δῆμοι Σαμεί̈ κατ’ ἐπισκοπὴν αὐτῶν τέσσαρεσ καὶ ἑξήκοντα χιλιάδεσ καὶ τετρακόσιοι. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 26:47)
  • δῴη σε Κύριοσ ἐπισκοπὴν ἐναντίον τῶν ἐχθρῶν σου. ἐν ὁδῷ μιᾷ ἐξελεύσῃ πρὸσ αὐτούσ, καὶ ἐν ἑπτὰ ὁδοῖσ φεύξῃ ἀπὸ προσώπου αὐτῶν. καὶ ἔσῃ ἐν διασπορᾷ ἐν πάσαισ βασιλείαισ τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 28:25)
  • ὅθεν ὁ κατὰ πάντα Φάλαρισ βασιλεὺσ ἐμπληθυνθεὶσ ἀλογιστίασ καὶ τὰσ γινομένασ πρὸσ ἐπισκοπὴν τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐν αὐτῷ μεταβολὰσ τῆσ ψυχῆσ παῤ οὐδὲν ἡγούμενοσ, ἀτελέστατον ἐβεβαίωσεν ὅρκον, ὁρισάμενοσ τούτουσ μὲν ἀνυπερθέτωσ πέμψειν εἰσ ᾅδην ἐν γόνασι καὶ ποσὶ θηρίων ᾐκισμένουσ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 5:42)
  • γενηθήτωσαν αἱ ἡμέραι αὐτοῦ ὀλίγαι, καὶ τὴν ἐπισκοπὴν αὐτοῦ λάβοι ἕτεροσ. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 108:8)
  • ἢ ἐπισκοπὴν αὐτοῦ ποιήσῃ ἕωσ τὸ πρωί̈ καὶ εἰσ ἀνάπαυσιν αὐτὸν κρινεῖσ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iob 7:18)

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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