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μιαιφονία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μιαιφονία

Structure: μιαιφονι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. bloodguiltiness
  2. pollution from eating blood

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative μιαιφονία μιαιφονίᾱ μιαιφονίαι
Genitive μιαιφονίᾱς μιαιφονίαιν μιαιφονιῶν
Dative μιαιφονίᾱͅ μιαιφονίαιν μιαιφονίαις
Accusative μιαιφονίᾱν μιαιφονίᾱ μιαιφονίᾱς
Vocative μιαιφονίᾱ μιαιφονίᾱ μιαιφονίαι

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

  • σὺ δὲ διὰ τὴν ἡμῶν μιαιφονίαν αὐτάρκη καρτερήσεισ ὑπὸ τῆσ θείασ δίκησ αἰώνιον βάσανον διὰ πυρόσ. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 9:9)
  • σὺ δὲ διὰ τὴν ἀσέβειαν καὶ μιαιφονίαν ἀκαταλύτουσ καρτερήσεισ βασάνουσ. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 10:11)
  • ἥμαρτεν, οὕτωσ ἡμᾶσ ἑαυτῶν τὴν γαστριμαργίαν καὶ μιαιφονίαν ἐκτεμόντασ ἁγνεῦσαι τὸν λοιπὸν βίον ἐπεὶ ἥ γε γαστὴρ οὐ μιαιφόνον ἐστὶν ἀλλὰ μιαινόμενον ἀπὸ τῆσ ἀκρασίασ. (Plutarch, De esu carnium II, section 1 4:1)
  • ὑμᾶσ δὲ τοὺσ νῦν τίσ λύσσα καὶ τίσ οἶστροσ ἄγει πρὸσ μιαιφονίαν, οἷσ τοσαῦτα περίεστι τῶν ἀναγκαίων; (Plutarch, De esu carnium I, chapter, section 2 10:1)
  • οὕτω δὲ φιλοβάρβαρόσ ἐστιν, ὥστε Βούσιριν ἀπολύσασ τῆσ λεγομένησ ἀνθρωποθυσίασ καὶ ξενοκτονίασ, καὶ πᾶσιν Αἰγυπτίοισ ὁσιότητα πολλὴν καὶ δικαιοσύνην μαρτυρήσασ ἐφ’ Ἕλληνασ ἀναστρέφει τὸ μύσοσ τοῦτο καὶ τὴν μιαιφονίαν. (Plutarch, De Herodoti malignitate, section 121)

Synonyms

  1. pollution from eating blood

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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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