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νῆψις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νῆψις νῆψιος

Structure: νηψι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: nh/fw

Sense

  1. soberness

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative νῆψις νήψιε νήψιες
Genitive νήψιος νηψίοιν νηψίων
Dative νήψῑ νηψίοιν νήψισιν*
Accusative νῆψιν νήψιε νήψιας
Vocative νῆψι νήψιε νήψιες

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 τοῖσ ἔξωθεν ὡσ μυστήριόν τι φρικτὸν ἡ τῶν ἔνδον σιωπὴ καταφαίνεται, τούτου δ’ αἴτιον ἡ διηνεκὴσ νῆψισ καὶ τὸ μετρεῖσθαι παρ’ αὐτοῖσ τροφὴν καὶ ποτὸν μέχρι κόρου. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 173:1)

Synonyms

  1. soberness

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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