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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

  • ὅτι τραυματίαι πολλοὶ ἔπεσον, ὅτι παρὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ ὁ πόλεμοσ. καὶ κατῴκησαν ἀντ̓ αὐτῶν ἕωσ τῆσ μετοικεσίασ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 5:22)
  • 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)
  • Ιὠσείασ δὲ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Ιἐχονίαν καὶ τοὺσ ἀδελφοὺσ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τῆσ μετοικεσίασ Βαβυλῶνοσ. (, chapter 1 39:1)
  • Πᾶσαι οὖν αἱ γενεαὶ ἀπὸ Ἀβραὰμ ἑώσ Δαυεὶδ γενεαὶ δεκατέσσαρεσ, καὶ ἀπὸ Δαυεὶδ ἑώσ τῆσ μετοικεσίασ Βαβυλῶνοσ γενεαὶ δεκατέσσαρεσ, καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ μετοικεσίασ Βαβυλῶνοσ ἑώσ τοῦ χριστοῦ γενεαὶ δεκατέσσαρεσ. (, chapter 1 58:1)

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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