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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

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)
  • καὶ ἀνίσταται ἐκ νυκτῶν καὶ ἔδωκε βρώματα τῷ οἴκῳ καὶ ἔργα ταῖσ θεραπαίναισ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 29:32)
  • καὶ ἔσται ὁ λαὸσ ὡσ ὁ ἱερεὺσ καὶ ὁ παῖσ ὡσ ὁ κύριοσ καὶ ἡ θεράπαινα ὡσ ἡ κυρία. ἔσται ὁ ἀγοράζων ὡσ ὁ πωλῶν, ὁ δανείζων ὡσ ὁ δανειζόμενοσ καὶ ὁ ὀφείλων ὡσ ᾧ ὀφείλει. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 24:2)
  • Ἐλευθέραν τινά, ὦ Τρίτων, λέγεισ, ἢ θεράπαινά τισ ὑδροφόροσ ἐστίν; (Lucian, Dialogi Marini, triton, amymone, and poseidon, chapter 13)
  • καὶ σὴ θεράπαινα σύνοιδε Καλυψώ. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 50:6)
  • ἡ δὲ Σύρα Σεμίραμισ οἰκότριβοσ μὲν ἦν βασιλικοῦ θεράπαινα παλλακευομένη· (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 9 4:3)
  • ἀποροῦσι δ’ αὐτοῖσ θεράπαινα Φιλωτίσ, ὡσ δ’ ἔνιοι λέγουσι Τουτόλα καλουμένη, συνεβούλευσε μηδέτερα ποιεῖν, ἀλλὰ χρησαμένουσ δόλῳ διαφυγεῖν ἅμα τὸν πόλεμον καὶ τὴν ἐξομήρευσιν. (Plutarch, chapter 29 4:3)

Synonyms

  1. a waiting maid

Related

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

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