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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

  • παρακαλῶ οὖν ὑμᾶσ καὶ ἀξιῶ, μεμνημένουσ τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν κοινῇ καὶ κατ̓ ἰδίαν, ἕκαστον συντηρεῖν τὴν οὖσαν εὔνοιαν εἰσ ἐμὲ καὶ τὸν υἱόν μου. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:26)
  • καὶ ἐπελάθοντο τῶν εὐεργεσιῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν θαυμασίων αὐτοῦ, ὧν ἔδειξεν αὐτοῖσ, (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 77:11)
  • καὶ εἰκότωσ, οἶμαι δεῖ γὰρ οὐκ ἀχαρίστουσ εἶναι τοὺσ τῶν μεγίστων τυχόντασ εὐεργεσιῶν. (Lucian, Patriae Encomium, (no name) 7:3)
  • μεγέθει μὲν οὖν τῶν εἰσ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ εὐεργεσιῶν οὔτε Φιλοποίμενα Τίτῳ παραβάλλειν οὔτε πάνυ πολλοὺσ τῶν Φιλοποίμενοσ ἀμεινόνων ἀνδρῶν ἄξιόν ἐστι. (Plutarch, Comparison of Philopoemen and Titus, chapter 1 1:1)
  • Φίλιπποσ δ’ αὐτῶν κατεῖχε τὰσ ὁρμὰσ ὑπομιμνήσκων τῶν τε τοῦ βασιλέωσ εἰσ αὐτοὺσ εὐεργεσιῶν, καὶ τὴν Ῥωμαίων διηγούμενοσ ὅση τίσ ἐστι δύναμισ συμφέρειν οὐκ ἔλεγεν ἄρασθαι πρὸσ τούτουσ πόλεμον, καὶ τέλοσ ἔπεισεν. (Flavius Josephus, 71:1)

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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