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νεῦμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεῦμα νεῦματος

Structure: νευματ (Stem)

Etym.: neu/w

Sense

  1. a nod or sign, a mere nod, without cause

Declension

Third 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

  • Τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ. ἀνθ̓ ὧν ὑψώθησαν αἱ θυγατέρεσ καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν ὑψηλῷ τραχήλῳ καὶ ἐν νεύμασιν ὀφθαλμῶν καὶ τῇ πορείᾳ τῶν ποδῶν ἅμα σύρουσαι τοὺσ χιτῶνασ καὶ τοῖσ ποσὶν ἅμα παίζουσαι, (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 3:16)
  • πρύτανισ ἄκριτοσ ὤν, κρατύνεισ βωμόν, ἑστίαν χθονόσ, μονοψήφοισι νεύμασιν σέθεν, μονοσκήπτροισι δ’ ἐν θρόνοισ χρέοσ πᾶν ἐπικραίνεισ· (Aeschylus, Suppliant Women, choral, strophe 22)
  • σιγᾷσ Χρυσεόμαλλε τὸ χάλκεον, οὐκέτι δ’ ἡμῖν εἰκόνασ ἀρχεγόνων ἐκτελέεισ μερόπων νεύμασιν ἀφθόγγοισι· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume II, book 7, chapter 5631)
  • ἐκεῖνοσ δὲ ἀπήγγελλεν, ὅτι καὶ νεύμασιν καὶ βλέμμασιν οὐκ ἄδηλοι τῆσ ὁρμῆσ εἰσιν ἀμφότεροι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 16 264:2)

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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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