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εὐεργεσία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐεργεσία

Structure: εὐεργεσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. well-doing
  2. good service, a good deed, kindness, bounty, benefit

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

  • ἡ γὰρ κτίσισ σοι τῷ ποιήσαντι ὑπηρετοῦσα ἐπιτείνεται εἰσ κόλασιν κατὰ τῶν ἀδίκων καὶ ἀνίεται εἰσ εὐεργεσίαν ὑπὲρ τῶν εἰσ σὲ πεποιθότων. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 16:24)
  • τοῦτο γὰρ μείζω οἶμαι ποιεῖν τὴν ἐμὴν εὐεργεσίαν, ὃσ οὔτε υἱὸσ ὢν τότε οὔτε ἀναγκαίαν τῆσ θεραπείασ ἔχων αἰτίαν ἀλλὰ ἐλεύθεροσ καθεστὼσ καὶ ἀλλότριοσ, τῆσ φυσικῆσ αἰτίασ ἀφειμένοσ, ὅμωσ οὐ περιεῖδον, ἀλλ’ ἐθελοντήσ, ἄκλητοσ, αὐτεπάγγελτοσ ἧκον ἐβοήθησα, προσελιπάρησα, ἰασάμην, ἀνέστησα, καὶ τὸν πατέρα ἐμαυτῷ διεφύλαξα, καὶ ὑπὲρ τῆσ ἀποκηρύξεωσ ἀπελογησάμην, καὶ τῇ εὐνοίᾳ τὴν ὀργὴν ἔπαυσα, καὶ τὸν νόμον ἔλυσα τῇ φιλοστοργίᾳ, καὶ μεγάλη εὐεργεσίασ τὴν ἐσ τὸ γένοσ ἐπάνοδον ἐπριάμην, καὶ ἐν οὕτωσ ἐπισφαλεῖ καιρῷ τὴν πρὸσ τὸν πατέρα πίστιν ἐπεδειξάμην, καὶ μετὰ τῆσ τέχνησ ἐμαυτὸν ἐσεποίησα, καὶ γνήσιοσ υἱὸσ ἐν τοῖσ δεινοῖσ ἀνεφάνην. (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 16:1)
  • τῶν ἕνα ϝοι Κρονίδασ ὑψίζυγοσ Ἰσθμιόνικον θῆκεν ἀντ’ εὐεργεσιᾶν, λιπαρῶν τ’ ἄλ‐ λων στεφάνων ἐπίμοιρον. (Bacchylides, , epinicians, ode 1 14:1)
  • τῶν Ἰσθμίων, ἀναβὰσ τ’ ἐπὶ τὸν τοῦ Ποσειδῶνοσ νεὼν κατεβόα τῶν Βακχιαδῶν καὶ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸσ Ἅβρωνοσ εὐεργεσίαν ὑπεμίμνησκε, τούσ τε θεοὺσ ἐπικαλεσάμενοσ ῥίπτει ἑαυτὸν κατὰ τῶν πετρῶν. (Plutarch, Amatoriae narrationes, chapter 2 12:1)
  • ἀνθ’ ὧν καὶ ἀπομνημονεύων τῇ Θέτιδι τὴν εὐεργεσίαν ἐξαπατᾷ τὸν Ἀγαμέμνονα ὄνειρόν τινα ψευδῆ ἐπιπέμψασ, ὡσ πολλοὶ τῶν Ἀχαιῶν ἀποθάνοιεν. (Lucian, Juppiter trageodeus, (no name) 40:4)

Synonyms

  1. well-doing

  2. good service

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

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