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ἐπίχειρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐπίχειρον ἐπίχειρου

Structure: ἐπιχειρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: xei/r

Sense

  1. wages of manual labour, wages, pay, guerdon, reward, rewards, the wages

Declension

Second 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

  • καὶ τὴν γλῶσσαν τοῦ δυσσεβοῦσ Νικάνοροσ ἐκτεμὼν ἔφη κατὰ μέροσ δώσειν τοῖσ ὀρνέοισ, τὰ δὲ ἐπίχειρα τῆσ ἀνοίασ κατέναντι τοῦ ναοῦ κρεμάσαι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 15:33)
  • κατεάχθη κέρασ Μωάβ, καὶ τὸ ἐπίχειρον αὐτοῦ συνετρίβη. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 31:25)
  • ὅτι ἐγὼ ἐποίησα τὴν γῆν ἐν τῇ ἰσχύϊ μου τῇ μεγάλῃ καὶ ἐν τῷ ἐπιχείρῳ μου τῷ ὑψηλῷ καὶ δώσω αὐτὴν ᾧ ἐὰν δόξῃ ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ μου. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 34:4)
  • τετράποδοσ βάσιν θηρὸσ ὀρεστέρου τιθέμενοσ ἐπίχειρα κατ’ ἴχνοσ; (Euripides, Hecuba, episode, lyric2)
  • κἂν αὐλητήσ γε δίκην νικᾷ, ταύτησ ἡμῖν ἐπίχειρα ἐν φορβειᾷ τοῖσι δικασταῖσ ἔξοδον ηὔλησ’ ἀπιοῦσι. (Aristophanes, Wasps, Agon, epirrheme 1:5)
  • ὁ γὰρ παρὰ τῶν ἐκτὸσ ἔλεοσ οὐ μικρὸν ἐπίχειρόν ἐστι τοῖσ ἀδίκωσ ἀκληροῦσιν, εἴ γε πολλάκισ ἰδεῖν ἔστιν ἅμα ταῖσ τῶν πολλῶν ὁρμαῖσ καὶ τὴν τύχην μεταβαλλομένην καὶ τοὺσ κρατοῦντασ αὐτοὺσ μεταμελομένουσ καὶ διορθουμένουσ τὰσ τῶν παραλόγωσ ἠτυχηκότων περιπετείασ. (Polybius, Histories, book 38, chapter 3 2:1)

Synonyms

  1. wages of manual labour

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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