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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

  • καὶ εἰ ἀνήγγειλάσ μοι, ἐξαπέστειλα ἄν σε μετ̓ εὐφροσύνησ καὶ μετὰ μουσικῶν καὶ τυμπάνων καὶ κιθάρασ, (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 31:27)
  • καὶ ἐν ταῖσ ἡμέραισ τῆσ εὐφροσύνησ ὑμῶν καὶ ἐν ταῖσ ἑορταῖσ ὑμῶν καὶ ἐν ταῖσ νουμηνίαισ ὑμῶν σαλπιεῖτε ταῖσ σάλπιγξιν ἐπὶ τοῖσ ὁλοκαυτώμασι καὶ ἐπὶ ταῖσ θυσίαισ τῶν σωτηρίων ὑμῶν, καὶ ἔσται ὑμῖν ἀνάμνησισ ἔναντι τοῦ Θεοῦ ὑμῶν. ἐγὼ Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 10:10)
  • καὶ εἶπε Δαυὶδ τοῖσ ἄρχουσι τῶν Λευιτῶν. στήσατε τοὺσ ἀδελφοὺσ αὐτῶν τοὺσ ψαλτῳδοὺσ ἐν ὀργάνοισ, νάβλαισ, κινύραισ καὶ κυμβάλοισ τοῦ φωνῆσαι εἰσ ὕψοσ ἐν φωνῇ εὐφροσύνησ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 15:16)
  • καὶ πολλοὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἱερέων καὶ τῶν Λευιτῶν καὶ ἄρχοντεσ τῶν πατριῶν οἱ πρεσβύτεροι, οἳ εἴδοσαν τὸν οἶκον τὸν πρῶτον ἐν θεμελιώσει αὐτοῦ, καὶ τοῦτον τὸν οἶκον ἐν ὀφθαλμοῖσ αὐτῶν, ἔκλαιον φωνῇ μεγάλῃ. καὶ ὁ ὄχλοσ ἐν σημασίᾳ μετ̓ εὐφροσύνησ τοῦ ὑψῶσαι ᾠδήν. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae II 3:12)
  • καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ λαὸσ ἐπιγινώσκων φωνὴν σημασίασ τῆσ εὐφροσύνησ ἀπὸ τῆσ φωνῆσ τοῦ κλαυθμοῦ τοῦ λαοῦ, ὅτι ὁ λαὸσ ἐκραύγασε φωνῇ μεγάλῃ, καὶ ἡ φωνὴ ἠκούετο ἕωσ ἀπὸ μακρόθεν. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae II 3:13)

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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