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καταφθορά

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: καταφθορά

Structure: καταφθορ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: katafqei/rw

Sense

  1. destruction, death
  2. confusion

Declension

First 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 ἐν τῷ ἐντραπῆναι αὐτὸν ἀπεστράφη ἀπ’ αὐτοῦ ὀργὴ Κυρίου καὶ οὐκ εἰσ καταφθορὰν εἰσ τέλοσ. καὶ γὰρ ἐν Ἰούδᾳ ἦσαν λόγοι ἀγαθοί. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 12:12)
  • ζ καὶ νῦν, Κύριε ὁ Θεόσ, ὁ βασιλεύσ, ὁ Θεὸσ Ἁβραάμ, φεῖσαι τοῦ λαοῦ σου, ὅτι ἐπιβλέπουσιν ἡμῖν εἰσ καταφθορὰν καὶ ἐπεθύμησαν ἀπολέσαι τὴν ἐξ ἀρχῆσ κληρονομίαν σου. (Septuagint, Liber Esther 4:22)
  • καὶ ζήσεται εἰσ τέλοσ. οὐκ ὄψεται καταφθοράν, (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 48:10)
  • μνήσθητι τὰ ἔσχατα καὶ παῦσαι ἐχθραίνων, καταφθορὰν καὶ θάνατον, καὶ ἔμμενε ἐντολαῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 28:6)
  • τάσ τ’ οὖν ἀγορὰσ διὰ φυλακῆσ ἔχετε, καὶ τῆσ τιμῆσ τῶν ὠνίων μηθὲν ἀνίετε, ἀλλ’ ὅσου πλείστου ποτὲ ἦν τὰ ὤνια, τοσούτου καὶ νῦν αὐτὰ πωλεῖν ψηφίσασθε δικαίασ ἀφορμὰσ ἔχοντεσ καὶ προφάσεισ εὐλόγουσ τήν τ’ ἀχάριστον τοῦ δήμου καταβοήν, ὡσ ὐφ’ ἡμῶν κατασκευασθείσησ τῆσ σιτοδείασ, ἣ διὰ τὴν ἀπόστασιν τὴν ἐκείνων ἐγένετο καὶ τὴν καταφθοράν, ἣν ἐποιήσαντο, τῆσ γῆσ, ἄγοντεσ αὐτὴν καὶ φέροντεσ ὥσπερ πολεμίαν, καὶ τὰσ ἐξαιρεθείσασ ἐκ τοῦ δημοσίου δαπάνασ εἰσ τοὺσ ἀποσταλέντασ ἐπὶ τὴν σιτωνίαν ἄνδρασ, καὶ ἄλλα πολλά τιν’, ἃ ἠδίκησθε ὑπ’ αὐτῶν· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 24 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. destruction

  2. confusion

Related

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

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