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περισσεία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: περισσεία

Structure: περισσει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: perisso/s

Sense

  1. surplus, abundance

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

  • τίσ περισσεία τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐν παντὶ μόχθῳ αὐτοῦ, ᾧ μοχθεῖ ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον̣ (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 1:3)
  • καὶ ἐπέβλεψα ἐγὼ ἐν πᾶσι ποιήμασί μου, οἷσ ἐποίησαν αἱ χεῖρέσ μου, καὶ ἐν μόχθῳ, ᾧ ἐμόχθησα τοῦ ποιεῖν, καὶ ἰδοὺ τὰ πάντα ματαιότησ καὶ προαίρεσισ πνεύματοσ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι περισσεία ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 2:11)
  • καὶ εἶδον ἐγὼ ὅτι ἐστὶ περισσεία τῇ σοφίᾳ ὑπὲρ τὴν ἀφροσύνην, ὡσ περισσεία τοῦ φωτὸσ ὑπὲρ τὸ σκότοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 2:13)
  • τίσ περισσεία τοῦ ποιοῦντοσ ἐν οἷσ αὐτὸσ μοχθεῖ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 3:9)

Synonyms

  1. surplus

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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