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πεῖρα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πεῖρα πεῖρας

Structure: πειρ (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. trial, experiment, attempt

Declension

First 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

  • καὶ ἡ ἁπαλὴ ἐν ὑμῖν καὶ ἡ τρυφερά, ἧσ οὐχὶ πεῖραν ἔλαβεν ὁ ποὺσ αὐτῆσ βαίνειν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ διὰ τὴν τρυφερότητα καὶ διὰ τὴν ἁπαλότητα, βασκανεῖ τῷ ὀφθαλμῷ αὐτῆσ τὸν ἄνδρα αὐτῆσ τὸν ἐν κόλπῳ αὐτῆσ καὶ τὸν υἱὸν καὶ τὴν θυγατέρα αὐτῆς (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 28:56)
  • ὁ δὲ ταχέωσ προχειρισάμενοσ Νικάνορα τὸν τοῦ Πατρόκλου τῶν πρώτων φίλων ἀπέστειλεν ὑποτάξασ παμφύλων ἔθνη οὐκ ἐλάττουσ τῶν δισμυρίων τὸ σύμπαν τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐξᾶραι γένοσ. συνέστησε δὲ αὐτῷ καὶ Γοργίαν ἄνδρα στρατηγὸν καὶ ἐν πολεμικαῖσ χρείαισ πεῖραν ἔχοντα. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 8:9)
  • Ἥψατο δὲ καὶ δικαίων πεῖρα θανάτου, καὶ θραῦσισ ἐν ἐρήμῳ ἐγένετο πλήθουσ. ἀλλ̓ οὐκ ἐπὶ πολὺ ἔμεινεν ἡ ὀργή. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 18:20)
  • τούτοισ εἶξεν ὁ ὀλοθρεύων, ταῦτα δὲ ἐφοβήθησαν. ἦν γὰρ μόνη ἡ πεῖρα τῆσ ὀργῆσ ἱκανή. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 18:25)
  • ἐπειδὴ γὰρ κατά τὴν πρώτην πεῖραν ἐνικήθη περιφανῶσ ὁ τύραννοσ μὴ δυνηθεὶσ ἀναγκάσαι γέροντα μιαροφαγῆσαι, τότε δὴ σφόδρα περιπαθῶσ ἐκέλευσεν ἄλλουσ ἐκ τῆσ ἡλικίασ τῶν Ἑβραίων ἀγαγεῖν, καὶ εἰ μὲν μιαροφαγήσαιεν, ἀπολύειν φαγόντασ, εἰ δὲ ἀντιλέγοιεν, πικρότερον βασανίζειν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 8:2)
  • καὶ τῷ Λευὶ εἶπε. δότε Λευὶ δήλουσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀλήθειαν αὐτοῦ, τῷ ἀνδρὶ τῷ ὁσίῳ, ὃν ἐπείρασαν αὐτὸν ἐν πείρᾳ, ἐλοιδόρησαν αὐτὸν ἐπὶ ὕδατοσ ἀντιλογίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 33:8)
  • Οὐκ ἀσφαλὴσ ἡ πεῖρα, ὦ Πρωτεῦ. (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, menelaus and proteus, chapter 2 1:4)
  • ἐῶ γὰρ λέγειν ὁπόσα ἐπὶ πείρᾳ τῆσ μαντικῆσ ἐπιτεχνῶνται αὐτῷ ἄρνεια κρέα καὶ χελώνασ εἰσ τὸ αὐτὸ ἕψοντεσ, ὥστε εἰ μὴ τὴν ῥῖνα ὀξὺσ ἦν, κἂν ἀπῆλθεν αὐτοῦ ὁ Λυδὸσ καταγελῶν. (Lucian, Bis accusatus sive tribunalia, (no name) 1:10)

Synonyms

  1. trial

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