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καταφαγεῖν

Verb; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταφαγεῖν

Structure:

Etym.: serving as aor2 to katesqi/w

Sense

  1. to devour, eat up
  2. to spend in eating, waste, devour

Conjugation

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

  • ΕΓΕΝΕΤΟ δὲ ἡνίκα συνετέλεσαν καταφαγεῖν τὸν σῖτον, ὃν ἤνεγκαν ἐξ Αἰγύπτου, καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖσ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτῶν. πάλιν πορευθέντεσ πρίασθε ἡμῖν μικρὰ βρώματα. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 43:1)
  • καὶ ἐγένετο ἐκεῖ ὁ πόλεμοσ διεσπαρμένοσ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον πάσησ τῆσ γῆσ, καὶ ἐπλεόνασεν ὁ δρυμὸσ τοῦ καταφαγεῖν ἐκ τοῦ λαοῦ ὑπὲρ οὓσ κατέφαγεν ἐν τῷ λαῷ ἡ μάχαιρα τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 18:8)
  • ἐὰν συσχῶ τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ μὴ γένηται ὑετόσ, καὶ ἐὰν ἐντείλωμαι τῇ ἀκρίδι καταφαγεῖν τὸ ξύλον, καὶ ἐὰν ἀποστείλω θάνατον ἐν τῷ λαῷ μου, (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 7:13)
  • καὶ ἔσται ἐὰν συντελέσῃ τοῦ καταφαγεῖν τὸν χόρτον τῆσ γῆσ, καὶ εἶπα. Κύριε Κύριε, ἵλεωσ γενοῦ. τίσ ἀναστήσει τὸν Ἰακώβ̣ ὅτι ὀλιγοστόσ ἐστι. (Septuagint, Prophetia Amos 7:2)
  • κακαὶ δὲ ἀνακληθῆναι αὗται καὶ δυσπειθεῖσ ὑπὸ λιμοῦ, δειναὶ δὲ καὶ καταφαγεῖν τὸν ἁλόντα· (Arrian, Cynegeticus, chapter 22 1:3)

Synonyms

  1. to devour

  2. to spend in eating

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

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