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κατοίκησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κατοίκησις κατοίκησεως

Structure: κατοικησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from katoike/w

Sense

  1. a settling in

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κατοίκησις κατοικήσει κατοικήσεις
Genitive κατοικήσεως κατοικήσοιν κατοικήσεων
Dative κατοικήσει κατοικήσοιν κατοικήσεσιν*
Accusative κατοίκησιν κατοικήσει κατοικήσεις
Vocative κατοίκησι κατοικήσει κατοικήσεις

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 ἐγένετο ἡ κατοίκησισ αὐτῶν ἀπὸ Μασσῆ ἕωσ ἐλθεῖν εἰσ Σαφηρά, ὄροσ ἀνατολῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 10:30)
  • ἡ δὲ κατοίκησισ τῶν υἱῶν Ἰσραήλ, ἣν κατῴκησαν ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ καὶ ἐν γῇ Χαναάν, ἔτη τετρακόσια τριάκοντα. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 12:40)
  • καὶ τῷ Μεμφιβοσθὲ υἱὸσ μικρὸσ ἦν, καὶ ὄνομα αὐτῷ Μιχά. καὶ πᾶσα ἡ κατοίκησισ τοῦ οἴκου Σιβὰ δοῦλοι τοῦ Μεμφιβοσθέ. (Septuagint, Liber II Samuelis 9:12)
  • καὶ εἶπον οἱ ἄνδρεσ τῆσ πόλεωσ πρὸσ Ἑλισαιέ. ἰδοὺ ἡ κατοίκησισ τῆσ πόλεωσ ἀγαθή, καθὼσ ὁ κύριοσ βλέπει, καὶ τὰ ὕδατα πονηρὰ καὶ ἡ γῆ ἀτεκνουμένη. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 2:19)
  • "ὡσ δ’ Ἀρχίλοχοσ, ἀπὸ ποταμοῦ, οὐκ ὀλίγον δὲ πρὸσ τὴν τρυφὴν καὶ τὴν εὐδαιμονίαν τοῦ σύμπαντοσ τούτου κλίματοσ καὶ τὸ πλῆθοσ ἐγένετο τῶν ἀνθρώπων, διὸ καὶ Μεγάλη Ἑλλὰσ ἐκλήθη πᾶσα σχεδὸν ἡ κατὰ τὴν Ἰταλίαν κατοίκησισ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 20 1:39)
  • ἀποκριθεὶσ δὲ Ἰσαὰκ ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ εἶπεν αὐτῷ. ἰδοὺ ἀπὸ τῆσ πιότητοσ τῆσ γῆσ ἔσται ἡ κατοίκησίσ σου καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ δρόσου τοῦ οὐρανοῦ ἄνωθεν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 27:39)

Synonyms

  1. a settling in

Similar forms

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

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