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εὐφρόσυνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: εὐφρόσυνος εὐφρόσυνη εὐφρόσυνον

Structure: εὐφροσυν (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: poet. for eu)/frwn

Sense

  1. in good cheer

Declension

First/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

  • ἀνθ̓ ὧν οὐκ ἐλάτρευσασ Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ σου ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ καὶ ἀγαθῇ διανοίᾳ διὰ τὸ πλῆθοσ πάντων. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 28:47)
  • καὶ ἀπηγγέλη τῷ βασιλεῖ Δαυὶδ λέγοντεσ. εὐλόγησε Κύριοσ τὸν οἶκον Ἀβεδδαρὰ καὶ πάντα τὰ αὐτοῦ ἕνεκα τῆσ κιβωτοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ ἐπορεύθη Δαυὶδ καὶ ἀνήγαγε τὴν κιβωτὸν τοῦ Κυρίου ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου Ἀβεδδαρὰ εἰσ τὴν πόλιν Δαυὶδ ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 6:12)
  • καὶ οἱ ὁμοροῦντεσ αὐτοῖσ ἕωσ Ἰσσάχαρ καὶ Ζαβουλὼν καὶ Νεφθαλὶ ἔφερον αὐτοῖσ ἐπὶ τῶν καμήλων καὶ τῶν ὄνων καὶ τῶν ἡμιόνων καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν μόσχων βρώματα, ἄλευρα, παλάθασ, σταφίδασ, οἶνον καὶ ἔλαιον, μόσχουσ καὶ πρόβατα εἰσ πλῆθοσ, ὅτι εὐφροσύνη ἐν Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 12:41)
  • καὶ ἦν Δαυὶδ καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι Ἰσραὴλ καὶ οἱ χιλίαρχοι οἱ πορευόμενοι τοῦ ἀναγαγεῖν τὴν κιβωτὸν τῆσ διαθήκησ ἐξ οἴκου Ἀβδεδὸμ ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 15:25)
  • καὶ ἔγνων, Κύριε, ὅτι σὺ εἶ ὁ ἐτάζων καρδίασ καὶ δικαιοσύνην ἀγαπᾶσ. ἐν ἁπλότητι καρδίασ προεθυμήθην ταῦτα πάντα, καὶ νῦν τὸν λαόν σου τὸν εὑρεθέντα ὧδε εἶδον ἐν εὐφροσύνῃ προθυμηθέντα σοι. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 29:17)

Synonyms

  1. in good cheer

Related

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

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