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λῆψις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: λῆψις λῆψεως

Structure: ληψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: lh/yomai

Sense

  1. a taking hold, seizing, catching, seizure
  2. an accepting, receiving, receipts

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative λῆψις λήψει λήψεις
Genitive λήψεως λήψοιν λήψεων
Dative λήψει λήψοιν λήψεσιν*
Accusative λῆψιν λήψει λήψεις
Vocative λῆψι λήψει λήψεις

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

  • ἀπὸ σκορακισμοῦ λήψεωσ καὶ δόσεωσ καὶ ἀπὸ ἀσπαζομένων περὶ σιωπῆσ, (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 41:21)
  • αὕτη δ’ ἐστὶ δύναμίσ τισ ὑπὸ τὰσ αἰσθήσεισ ἄγουσα τὰ λεγόμενα, γίγνεται δ’ ἐκ τῆσ τῶν παρακολουθούντων λήψεωσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, chapter 72)
  • ἐν δυσὶ γὰρ οὖσα, τῇ τ’ ἐλλείψει τῆσ δόσεωσ καὶ τῇ ὑπερβολῇ τῆσ λήψεωσ, οὐ πᾶσιν ὁλόκληροσ παραγίνεται, ἀλλ’ ἐνίοτε χωρίζεται, καὶ οἳ μὲν τῇ λήψει ὑπερβάλλουσιν, οἳ δὲ τῇ δόσει ἐλλείπουσιν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 4 33:4)
  • Ἡρώδησ δὲ βουλόμενοσ δι’ αὐτοῦ πρώτου γενέσθαι πύστιν Καίσαρι τῶν ὁμήρων τῆσ λήψεωσ ἐκπέμπει γραμματοφόρουσ τὰ πάντα ἀκριβῶσ γράψασ εἰσ ἐπιστολὴν καὶ μηδὲν ὑπολιπόμενοσ ἐπὶ μηνύσει τῷ ὑπατικῷ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 129:3)
  • ὅ τε τρόποσ τῆσ λήψεωσ καὶ δυνατὸσ καὶ ῥᾴδιοσ τοῖσ βουλομένοισ πολυπραγμονεῖν τὰ παρὰ τῶν μαθηματικῶν. (Polybius, Histories, book 9, chapter 19 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. a taking hold

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

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