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ὠφέλημα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὠφέλημα ὠφέληματος

Structure: ὠφεληματ (Stem)

Etym.: from w)fele/w

Sense

  1. a useful or serviceable thing, a service, benefit
  2. use, advantage, profit

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὠφέλημα ὠφελήματε ὠφελήματα
Genitive ὠφελήματος ὠφελημάτοιν ὠφελημάτων
Dative ὠφελήματι ὠφελημάτοιν ὠφελήμασιν*
Accusative ὠφέλημα ὠφελήματε ὠφελήματα
Vocative ὠφέλημα ὠφελήματε ὠφελήματα

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

  • Κύριε, σὺ ἰσχύσ μου καὶ βοήθειά μου καὶ καταφυγή μου ἐν ἡμέρᾳ κακῶν. πρὸσ σὲ ἔθνη ἥξουσιν ἀπ’ ἐσχάτου τῆσ γῆσ καὶ ἐροῦσιν. ὡσ ψευδῆ ἐκτήσαντο οἱ πατέρεσ ἡμῶν εἴδωλα, καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν ἐν αὐτοῖσ ὠφέλημα. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 16:19)
  • ὦ πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισ φανεὶσ μέγιστον ὠφέλημα, ζηλῶ σε τῆσ εὐγλωττίασ. (Aristotle, Agon, antistrophe1)
  • "μῆτερ, πῶσ, ἔφη, μέλλω φιλεῖν τὸν μηδὲν ὠφέλημα, τὸν ὑπὸ τὰσ στέγασ τὸ κοῖλον Ἄργοσ δωρεὰν θέλοντ’ ἔχειν. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 13, book 13, chapter 44 6:3)
  • μέγ’ ὠφέλημα τοῦτ’ ἐδωρήσω βροτοῖσ. (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 3:8)
  • ἔνερθε δὲ χθονὸσ κεκρυμμέν’, ἀνθρώποισιν ὠφελήματα, χαλκόν, σίδηρον, ἄργυρον, χρυσόν τε τίσ φήσειεν ἂν πάροιθεν ἐξευρεῖν ἐμοῦ; (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode 4:10)
  • ὦ κοινὸν ὠφέλημα θνητοῖσιν φανείσ, τλῆμον Προμηθεῦ, τοῦ δίκην πάσχεισ τάδε; (Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, episode3)

Synonyms

  1. use

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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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