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κοίμησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κοίμησις κοίμησεως

Structure: κοιμησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a lying down to sleep

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

  • καὶ πρὸ καιροῦ κοιμήσεωσ αἰῶνοσ ἐπεμαρτύρατο ἔναντι Κυρίου καὶ χριστοῦ αὐτοῦ. χρήματα καὶ ἕωσ ὑποδημάτων ἀπὸ πάσησ σαρκὸσ οὐκ εἴληφα. καὶ οὐκ ἐνεκάλεσεν αὐτῷ ἄνθρωποσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 46:19)
  • ὁ δὲ Σύλλασ μᾶλλον εἴκαζε κοιμήσεωσ μεθημερινῆσ ἀποτροπὴν εἶναι τὸ σύμβολον, ἀναιρουμένησ ἑώθεν εὐθὺσ τῆσ πρὸσ τὸν ὕπνον παρασκευῆσ· (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 8, 15:1)
  • ἐκεῖνοι δὲ ἔδοξαν ὅτι περὶ τῆσ κοιμήσεωσ τοῦ ὕπνου λέγει. (, chapter 6 296:2)

Synonyms

  1. a lying down to sleep

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

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