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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 ἀνέβη πᾶσ ὁ λαὸσ ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐχόρευον ἐν χοροῖσ καὶ εὐφραινόμενοι εὐφροσύνην μεγάλην, καὶ ἐρράγη ἡ γῆ ἐν τῇ φωνῇ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 1:40)
  • καὶ πᾶσαν διάνοιαν μεταστρέφει εἰσ εὐωχίαν καὶ εὐφροσύνην καὶ οὐ μέμνηται πᾶσαν λύπην καὶ πᾶν ὀφείλημα. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 3:19)
  • καὶ ἀπῆλθε πᾶσ ὁ λαὸσ φαγεῖν καὶ πιεῖν καὶ ἀποστέλλειν μερίδασ καὶ ποιῆσαι εὐφροσύνην μεγάλην, ὅτι συνῆκαν ἐν τοῖσ λόγοισ οἷσ ἐγνώρισεν αὐτοῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 8:12)
  • Καί ἐν ἐγκαινίοισ τείχουσ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐζήτησαν τοὺσ Λευίτασ ἐν τοῖσ τόποισ αὐτῶν τοῦ ἐνέγκαι αὐτοὺσ εἰσ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ποιῆσαι ἐγκαίνια καὶ εὐφροσύνην ἐν Θωδαθὰ καὶ ἐν ᾠδαῖσ, κυμβαλίζοντεσ καὶ ψαλτήρια καὶ κινύραι. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 12:23)
  • καὶ ἐξῆλθε Βαγώασ ἀπὸ προσώπου Ὀλοφέρνου καὶ εἰσῆλθε πρὸσ αὐτὴν καὶ εἶπε. μὴ ὀκνησάτω δὴ ἡ παιδίσκη ἡ καλὴ αὕτη ἐλθοῦσα πρὸσ τὸν κύριόν μου δοξασθῆναι κατὰ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ καὶ πιεῖν μεθ̓ ἡμῶν εἰσ εὐφροσύνην οἶνον καὶ γενηθῆναι ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ταύτῃ ὡσ θυγάτηρ μία τῶν υἱῶν Ἀσσούρ, αἳ παρεστήκασιν ἐν οἴκῳ Ναβουχοδονόσορ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 12:13)

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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