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θεράπαινα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεράπαινα

Structure: θεραπαιν (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. a waiting maid, handmaid

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative θεράπαινα θεραπαίνᾱ θεράπαιναι
Genitive θεραπαίνης θεραπαίναιν θεραπαινῶν
Dative θεραπαίνῃ θεραπαίναιν θεραπαίναις
Accusative θεράπαιναν θεραπαίνᾱ θεραπαίνᾱς
Vocative θεράπαινα θεραπαίνᾱ θεράπαιναι

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 τελευτήσει πᾶν πρωτότοκον ἐν γῇ Αἰγύπτῳ, ἀπὸ πρωτοτόκου Φαραώ, ὃσ κάθηται ἐπὶ τοῦ θρόνου, καὶ ἕωσ πρωτοτόκου τῆσ θεραπαίνησ τῆσ παρὰ τὸν μύλον καὶ ἕωσ πρωτοτόκου παντὸσ κτήνουσ, (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 11:5)
  • ἐὰν δέ τισ πατάξῃ τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν τοῦ οἰκέτου αὐτοῦ ἢ τὸν ὀφθαλμὸν τῆσ θεραπαίνησ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐκτυφλώσῃ, ἐλευθέρουσ ἐξαποστελεῖ αὐτοὺσ ἀντὶ τοῦ ὀφθαλμοῦ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 21:26)
  • ἐὰν δὲ τὸν ὀδόντα τοῦ οἰκέτου ἢ τὸν ὀδόντα τῆσ θεραπαίνησ αὐτοῦ ἐκκόψῃ, ἐλευθέρουσ ἐξαποστελεῖ αὐτοὺσ ἀντὶ τοῦ ὀδόντοσ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 21:27)
  • εἰ δὲ καὶ ἐφαύλισα κρίμα θεράποντόσ μου ἢ θεραπαίνησ, κρινομένων αὐτῶν πρόσ με, (Septuagint, Liber Iob 31:13)
  • σαφῶσ ὑπουργὸν ἐν τούτοισ ποιῶν τὴν ἀρετὴν τῆσ ἡδονῆσ καὶ θεραπαίνησ τάξιν ἐπέχουσαν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 67 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. a waiting maid

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

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