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οἰώνισμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: οἰώνισμα οἰώνισματος

Structure: οἰωνισματ (Stem)

Etym.: from oi)wni/zomai

Sense

  1. divination by the flight or cries of birds

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative οἰώνισμα οἰωνίσματε οἰωνίσματα
Genitive οἰωνίσματος οἰωνισμάτοιν οἰωνισμάτων
Dative οἰωνίσματι οἰωνισμάτοιν οἰωνίσμασιν*
Accusative οἰώνισμα οἰωνίσματε οἰωνίσματα
Vocative οἰώνισμα οἰωνίσματε οἰωνίσματα

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 εἶπε Κύριοσ πρόσ με. ψευδῆ οἱ προφῆται προφητεύουσιν ἐπὶ τῷ ὀνόματί μου, οὐκ ἀπέστειλα αὐτοὺσ καὶ οὐκ ἐνετειλάμην αὐτοῖσ καὶ οὐκ ἐλάλησα πρὸσ αὐτούσ. ὅτι ὁράσεισ ψευδεῖσ καὶ μαντείασ καὶ οἰωνίσματα καὶ προαιρέσεισ καρδίασ αὐτῶν αὐτοὶ προφητεύουσιν ὑμῖν. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 14:14)

Synonyms

  1. divination by the flight or cries of birds

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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