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μετοικεσία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μετοικεσία

Structure: μετοικεσι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the Removal or Captivity

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 τῆσ μετοικεσίασ ἡ ἀρχὴ αὕτη. τοῖσ υἱοῖσ Ἰσραὴλ γῆ τῶν Χαναναίων ἕωσ Σαρεπτῶν καὶ ἡ μετοικεσία Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἕωσ Ἐφραθά, καὶ κληρονομήσουσι τὰσ πόλεισ τοῦ Ναγέβ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Abdiae 1:20)
  • καὶ Ἰωσαδὰκ ἐπορεύθη ἐν τῇ μετοικεσίᾳ μετὰ Ἰούδα καὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἐν χειρὶ Ναβουχοδονόσορ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 5:41)
  • Ἐμνήσθη Ἱερουσαλὴμ ἡμερῶν ταπεινώσεωσ αὐτῆσ καὶ ἀπωσμῶν αὐτῆσ. πάντα τὰ ἐπιθυμήματα αὐτῆσ, ὅσα ἦν ἐξ ἡμερῶν ἀρχαίων, ἐν τῷ πεσεῖν τὸν λαὸν αὐτῆσ εἰσ χεῖρασ θλίβοντοσ καὶ οὐκ ἦν ὁ βοηθῶν αὐτῇ, ἰδόντεσ οἱ ἐχθροὶ αὐτῆσ ἐγέλασαν ἐπὶ μετοικεσίᾳ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Lamentationes 1:8)
  • εἰπόν, ὅτι ἐγὼ τέρατα ποιῶ ἐν μέσῳ αὐτῆσ. ὃν τρόπον πεποίηκα, οὕτωσ ἔσται αὐτοῖσ. ἐν μετοικεσίᾳ καὶ ἐν αἰχμαλωσίᾳ πορεύσονται, (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 12:11)

Synonyms

  1. the Removal or Captivity

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

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