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πλεονεξία

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: πλεονεξία

Structure: πλεονεξι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. the character and conduct of a pleone/kths, greediness, grasping, assumption, arrogance
  2. gain, advantage, one's own advantage
  3. advantage over
  4. a larger share of, gain made

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

  • κλῖνον τὴν καρδίαν μου εἰσ τὰ μαρτύριά σου καὶ μὴ εἰσ πλεονεξίαν. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 118:36)
  • ὦ ὁ πλεονεκτῶν πλεονεξίαν κακὴν τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ τοῦ τάξαι εἰσ ὕψοσ νοσσιὰν αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἐκσπασθῆναι ἐκ χειρὸσ κακῶν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Habacuc 2:9)
  • ἰδοὺ οὐκ εἰσὶν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί σου οὐδὲ ἡ καρδία σου καλή, ἀλλὰ εἰσ τὴν πλεονεξίαν σου καὶ εἰσ τὸ αἷμα τὸ ἀθῷον τοῦ ἐκχέειν αὐτὸ καὶ εἰσ ἀδικήματα καὶ εἰσ φόνον τοῦ ποιεῖν αὐτά. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 22:17)
  • τὸ δέ γε Ταῦ τοῦτο, οὐ γὰρ ἔχω χείρονι αὐτὸ ὀνομάσαι ῥήματι ἢ ᾧ καλεῖται, ὃ μὰ τοὺσ θεούσ, εἰ μὴ ἐξ ὑμῶν δύο συνῆλθον ἀγαθοὶ καὶ καθήκοντεσ ὁραθῆναι, τό τε Ἄλφα καὶ τὸ Ὗ, οὐκ ἂν ἠκούσθη μόνον, τοῦτο τοίνυν ἐτόλμησεν ἀδικεῖν με πλείω τῶν πώποτε βιασαμένων, ὀνομάτων μὲν καὶ ῥημάτων ἀπελάσαν πατρῴων, ἐκδιῶξαν δὲ ὁμοῦ συνδέσμων ἅμα καὶ προθέσεων, ὡσ μηκέτι φέρειν τὴν ἔκτοπον πλεονεξίαν. (Lucian, Judicium vocalium, (no name) 6:1)
  • παρὰ τούτῳ δὴ τῷ ξένῳ τὴν τοῦ Ταῦ τούτου πλεονεξίαν ἐφώρασα· (Lucian, Judicium vocalium, (no name) 7:2)

Synonyms

  1. gain

Related

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

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