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κάρπωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κάρπωσις κάρπωσεως

Structure: καρπωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from karpo/w

Sense

  1. use or profit

Declension

Third 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

  • τυφλὸν ἢ συντετριμμένον ἢ γλωσσότμητον ἢ μυρμηκιῶντα ἢ ψωραγριῶντα ἢ λειχῆνασ ἔχοντα, οὐ προσάξουσι ταῦτα τῷ Κυρίῳ. καὶ εἰσ κάρπωσιν οὐ δώσετε ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον τῷ Κυρίῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 22:22)
  • νῦν δὲ λάβετε ἑπτὰ μόσχουσ καὶ ἑπτὰ κριοὺσ καὶ πορεύθητε πρὸσ τὸν θεράποντά μου Ἰώβ, καὶ ποιήσει κάρπωσιν ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν. Ἰὼβ δὲ ὁ θεράπων μου εὔξεται περὶ ὑμῶν, ὅτι εἰ μὴ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ λήψομαι. εἰ μὴ γὰρ δἰ αὐτόν, ἀπώλεσα ἂν ὑμᾶσ. οὐ γὰρ ἐλαλήσατε ἀληθὲσ κατὰ τοῦ θεράποντόσ μου Ἰώβ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 42:8)
  • ἐξελέξατο αὐτὸν ἀπὸ παντὸσ ζῶντοσ προσαγαγεῖν κάρπωσιν Κυρίῳ, θυμίαμα καὶ εὐωδίαν εἰσ μνημόσυνον, ἐξιλάσκεσθαι περὶ τοῦ λαοῦ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 45:16)
  • δοκεῖ οὖν μοι ὡσ τάχιστα ἰέναι τινὰ ὑμῶν εἰσ Πέρσασ καὶ διδάσκειν ἅπερ ἐγὼ λέγω, καὶ κελεύειν ὡσ τάχιστα ἐπιπέμπειν στράτευμα, εἴπερ ἐπιθυμοῦσι Πέρσαι τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆσ Ἀσίασ αὐτοῖσ καὶ τὴν κάρπωσιν γενέσθαι. (Xenophon, Cyropaedia, , chapter 5 19:1)

Synonyms

  1. use or profit

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

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