αὔξησις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From αὔξω (aúxō) + -σις (-sis).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ǎu̯k.sɛː.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈaʍk.se̝.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈaɸk.si.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈafk.si.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈafk.si.sis/
Noun
αὔξησῐς • (aúxēsĭs) f (genitive αὐξήσεως); third declension
Declension
| Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ἡ αὔξησῐς hē aúxēsĭs |
τὼ αὐξήσει tṑ auxḗsei |
αἱ αὐξήσεις hai auxḗseis | ||||||||||
| Genitive | τῆς αὐξήσεως tês auxḗseōs |
τοῖν αὐξησέοιν toîn auxēséoin |
τῶν αὐξήσεων tôn auxḗseōn | ||||||||||
| Dative | τῇ αὐξήσει tēî auxḗsei |
τοῖν αὐξησέοιν toîn auxēséoin |
ταῖς αὐξήσεσῐ / αὐξήσεσῐν taîs auxḗsesĭ(n) | ||||||||||
| Accusative | τὴν αὔξησῐν tḕn aúxēsĭn |
τὼ αὐξήσει tṑ auxḗsei |
τᾱ̀ς αὐξήσεις tā̀s auxḗseis | ||||||||||
| Vocative | αὔξησῐ aúxēsĭ |
αὐξήσει auxḗsei |
αὐξήσεις auxḗseis | ||||||||||
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Quotations
- New Testament, Epistle to the Colossians 2:19:
- καὶ οὐ κρατῶν τὴν κεφαλήν, ἐξ οὗ πᾶν τὸ σῶμα, διὰ τῶν ἁφῶν καὶ συνδέσμων ἐπιχορηγούμενον καὶ συμβιβαζόμενον, αὔξει τὴν αὔξησιν τοῦ Θεοῦ.
- kaì ou kratôn tḕn kephalḗn, ex hoû pân tò sôma, dià tôn haphôn kaì sundésmōn epikhorēgoúmenon kaì sumbibazómenon, aúxei tḕn aúxēsin toû Theoû.
- Translation by KJV
- And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God.
- καὶ οὐ κρατῶν τὴν κεφαλήν, ἐξ οὗ πᾶν τὸ σῶμα, διὰ τῶν ἁφῶν καὶ συνδέσμων ἐπιχορηγούμενον καὶ συμβιβαζόμενον, αὔξει τὴν αὔξησιν τοῦ Θεοῦ.
Descendants
Further reading
- αὔξησις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- αὔξησις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2025)
- αὔξησις, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
- “αὔξησις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- G838 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- advancement idem, page 14.
- aggrandisement idem, page 18.
- augmentation idem, page 52.
- development idem, page 220.
- enhancement idem, page 275.
- enlargement idem, page 275.
- expansion idem, page 292.
- growth idem, page 376.
- increase idem, page 430.
- multiplication idem, page 546.
- rise idem, page 717.