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μέθη

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: μέθη

Structure: μεθ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: = me/qu

Sense

  1. strong drink
  2. drunkenness

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μέθη μέθᾱ μέθαι
Genitive μέθης μέθαιν μεθῶν
Dative μέθῃ μέθαιν μέθαις
Accusative μέθην μέθᾱ μέθᾱς
Vocative μέθη μέθᾱ μέθαι

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 ὃ μισεῖσ, μηδενὶ ποιήσῃσ. οἶνον εἰσ μέθην μὴ πίῃσ, καὶ μὴ πορευθήτω μετὰ σοῦ μέθη ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 4:15)
  • δίδοτε μέθην τοῖσ ἐν λύπαισ καὶ οἶνον πίνειν τοῖσ ἐν ὀδύναισ, (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 24:74)
  • ἐκνήψατε, οἱ μεθύοντεσ, ἐξ οἴνου αὐτῶν καὶ κλαύσατε. θρηνήσατε, πάντεσ οἱ πίνοντεσ οἶνον εἰσ μέθην, ὅτι ἐξῄρθη ἐκ στόματοσ ὑμῶν εὐφροσύνη καὶ χαρά. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 1:5)
  • ἐσπείρατε πολλὰ καὶ εἰσηνέγκατε ὀλίγα, ἐφάγετε καὶ οὐκ εἰσ πλησμονήν, ἐπίετε καὶ οὐκ εἰσ μέθην, περιεβάλεσθε καὶ οὐκ ἐθερμάνθητε ἐν αὐτοῖσ, καὶ ὁ τοὺσ μισθοὺσ συνάγων συνήγαγεν εἰσ δεσμὸν τετρυπημένον. (Septuagint, Prophetia Aggaei 1:6)
  • τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ. τὸ ποτήριον τῆσ ἀδελφῆσ σου πίεσαι, τὸ βαθὺ καὶ τὸ πλατύ, τὸ πλεονάζον τοῦ συντελέσαι μέθην, (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 23:32)

Synonyms

  1. strong drink

  2. drunkenness

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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