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οἰκοδομή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰκοδομή

Structure: οἰκοδομ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: a late form for oi)kodo/mhma, Plut., NTest.

Sense

  1. a building ; the construction/making of a house

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative οἰκοδομή οἰκοδομᾱ́ οἰκοδομαί
Genitive οἰκοδομῆς οἰκοδομαῖν οἰκοδομῶν
Dative οἰκοδομῇ οἰκοδομαῖν οἰκοδομαῖς
Accusative οἰκοδομήν οἰκοδομᾱ́ οἰκοδομᾱ́ς
Vocative οἰκοδομή οἰκοδομᾱ́ οἰκοδομαί

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 βουλὰσ δημαγωγοῦντεσ καὶ συστάσεισ ποιούμενοι ἀπεκώλυσαν τοῦ ἀποτελεσθῆναι τὴν οἰκοδομὴν πάντα τὸν χρόνον τῆσ ζωῆσ τοῦ βασιλέωσ Κύρου. καὶ εἴρχθησαν τῆσ οἰκοδομῆσ ἔτη δύο ἕωσ τῆσ Δαρείου βασιλείασ. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 5:70)
  • καὶ οὐκ ἐκωλύθησαν τῆσ οἰκοδομῆσ, μέχρισ οὗ ὑποσημανθῆναι Δαρείῳ περὶ αὐτῶν καὶ προσφωνηθῆναι. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 6:6)
  • Καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν λόγων Ἰωάννου καὶ τῶν πολέμων αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν ἀνδραγαθιῶν αὐτοῦ, ὧν ἠνδραγάθησε, καὶ τῆσ οἰκοδομῆσ τῶν τειχέων, ὧν ᾠκοδόμησε, καὶ τῶν πράξεων αὐτοῦ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 16:23)
  • πολλοῖσ δ’ ὕστερον ἔτεσιν ὁ τρίτοσ βασιλεύσασ ἀπ’ ἐκείνου Ταρκύνιοσ, ὁ τῆσ ἀρχῆσ ἐκπεσών, τούσ τε θεμελίουσ κατεβάλετο καὶ τῆσ οἰκοδομῆσ τὰ πολλὰ εἰργάσατο. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 3, chapter 69 2:2)
  • τῆσ δὲ ποιήσεωσ τοῦ στεφάνου καὶ τῆσ οἰκοδομῆσ τοῦ τάφου χειροτονῆσαι τὸν δῆμον ἤδη τοὺσ ἐπιμελησομένουσ πέντε ἄνδρασ ἐξ Ἀ‐ θηναίων. (Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers, ISTORIWN Z, Kef. a'. ZHNWN 11:1)

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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