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χρήστης

First declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρήστης χρήστου

Structure: χρηστ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: gen. pl. xrh/stwn (not xrhstw=n, to distinguish it from the gen. pl. of xrhsto/s.)

Sense

  1. a creditor, usurer, dun
  2. a debtor

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χρήστης χρήστᾱ χρῆσται
Genitive χρήστου χρήσταιν χρηστῶν
Dative χρήστῃ χρήσταιν χρήσταις
Accusative χρήστην χρήστᾱ χρήστᾱς
Vocative χρῆστα χρήστᾱ χρῆσται

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

  • περίελε τὸν ὀνειδισμόν μου, ὃν ὑπώπτευσα. ὅτι τὰ κρίματά σου χρηστά. (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 118:39)
  • καὶ εἶπε Κύριοσ πρόσ με. τί σὺ ὁρᾷσ, Ἱερεμία̣ καὶ εἶπα. σύκα. τὰ χρηστὰ χρηστὰ λίαν, καὶ τὰ πονηρὰ πονηρὰ λίαν, ἃ οὐ βρωθήσεται ἀπὸ πονηρίασ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 24:3)
  • τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ Ἰσραήλ. ὡσ τὰ σύκα τὰ χρηστὰ ταῦτα, οὕτωσ ἐπιγνώσομαι τοὺσ ἀποικισθέντασ Ἰούδα, οὓσ ἐξαπέσταλκα ἐκ τοῦ τόπου τούτου εἰσ γῆν Χαλδαίων εἰσ ἀγαθά. καὶ στηριῶ τοὺσ ὀφθαλμούσ μου ἐπ’ αὐτοὺσ εἰσ ἀγαθὰ καὶ ἀποκαταστήσω αὐτοὺσ εἰσ τὴν γῆν ταύτην εἰσ ἀγαθὰ καὶ ἀνοικοδομήσω αὐτοὺσ καὶ οὐ μὴ καθελῶ καὶ καταφυτεύσω αὐτοὺσ καὶ οὐ μὴ ἐκτίλω. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 24:5)
  • καὶ ἐλάλησεν αὐτῷ χρηστὰ καὶ ἔδωκε τὸν θρόνον αὐτοῦ ἐπάνω τῶν βασιλέων τῶν μετ’ αὐτοῦ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 52:26)

Synonyms

  1. a debtor

Related

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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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