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χρεῖος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρεῖος χρεῖον

Structure: χρει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: xrh/

Sense

  1. needing, being in want of

Declension

First/Second 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

  • ἃ προσετάγη σοι, ταῦτα διανοοῦ, οὐ γάρ ἐστί σοι χρεία τῶν κρυπτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 3:21)
  • περὶ πράγματοσ, οὗ οὐκ ἔστι σοι χρεία, μὴ ἔριζε καὶ ἐν κρίσει ἁμαρτωλῶν μὴ συνέδρευε. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 11:9)
  • μὴ εἴπῃσ. τίσ ἐστί μου χρεία, καὶ τίνα ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν ἔσται μου τὰ ἀγαθά̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 11:21)
  • χρείαν ἔσχηκέ σου, καὶ ἀποπλανήσει σε καὶ προσγελάσεταί σοι καὶ δώσει σοι ἐλπίδα. λαλήσει σοι καλὰ καὶ ἐρεῖ. τίσ ἡ χρεία σου̣ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 13:6)
  • ἔξελθε, πάροικε, ἀπὸ προσώπου δόξησ, ἐπεξένωταί μοι ὁ ἀδελφόσ, χρεία τῆσ οἰκίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 29:26)

Synonyms

  1. needing

Related

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

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