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ὀφειλή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀφειλή

Structure: ὀφειλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: o)fei/lw

Sense

  1. a debt, one's due

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὀφειλή ὀφειλᾱ́ ὀφειλαί
Genitive ὀφειλῆς ὀφειλαῖν ὀφειλῶν
Dative ὀφειλῇ ὀφειλαῖν ὀφειλαῖς
Accusative ὀφειλήν ὀφειλᾱ́ ὀφειλᾱ́ς
Vocative ὀφειλή ὀφειλᾱ́ ὀφειλαί

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 ἔσται ὁ λαὸσ ὡσ ὁ ἱερεὺσ καὶ ὁ παῖσ ὡσ ὁ κύριοσ καὶ ἡ θεράπαινα ὡσ ἡ κυρία. ἔσται ὁ ἀγοράζων ὡσ ὁ πωλῶν, ὁ δανείζων ὡσ ὁ δανειζόμενοσ καὶ ὁ ὀφείλων ὡσ ᾧ ὀφείλει. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 24:2)
  • ὀφείλων δ’ ἦλθε συμπονεῖν ἐμοί. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, antistrophe 1 4:5)
  • πρῶτον δ’ ἑνὸσ οὕνεκα δήπου, ἤν τισ ὀφείλων ἐξαρνῆται. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Agon, epirrheme 2:31)
  • τάλαντον, οἶμαι, ὀφείλων γὰρ τῷ πατρὶ οὐκ ἤθελεν ἐκτίνειν, ὁ δὲ παρὰ τοὺσ ναυτοδίκασ ἀπήγαγεν αὐτόν, καὶ μόλισ ἐξέτισεν αὐτό, οὐδ̓ ὅλον, ὡσ ὁ πατὴρ ἔφασκεν. (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:6)
  • καὶ γὰρ θανάτου ἄξια πολλὰ πρότερον ἕτερα διαπέπρακται, καὶ ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ πλείω χρόνον ἢ ἔξω διατέτριφε, καὶ ὀφείλων τῷ δημοσίῳ κατὰ τῶν ἐπιτίμων γέγραφεν οὐκ ἐξὸν αὐτῷ, καὶ ἕτερα πολλὰ καὶ δεινὰ πεποίηκε, περὶ ὧν ὑμεῖσ ἀκριβέστερον ἐμοῦ γιγνώσκετε· (Dinarchus, Speeches, 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. a debt

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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