οὐσιῶν (ousion)

οὐσιῶν is an Ancient Greek form of οὐσία, meaning “substance, being; property”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun.

It can also be a form of οὐσιόω, “invest with being, existence”. It is the 3rd person plural imperfect active indicative.

It can also be a form of οὐσιάζω, “make magically efficacious by applying an”.

Found 72 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Publicola 12.2: ἐπῃνέθη δὲ καὶ διὰ τὸν ταμιευτικὸν νόμον. ἐπεὶ γὰρ ἔδει χρήματα πρὸς τὸν πόλεμον εἰσενεγκεῖν ἀπὸ τῶν οὐσιῶν τοὺς πολίτας, οὔτʼ αὐτὸς ἅψασθαι τῆς οἰκονομίας οὔτε τοὺς φίλους ἐᾶσαι βουλόμενος οὔθʼ ὅλως εἰς οἶκον ἰδιώτου …

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 38: … ίαν οὐσίαν, οὕτω καὶ μίαν ὑπόστασιν λέγειν· καὶ τὸ ἔμπαλιν, οἱ τὰς τρεῖς ὑποστάσεις παραδεχόμενοι καὶ τὴν τῶν οὐσίων διαίρεσιν, κατὰ τὸν ἴσον ἀριθμόν, ἐκ τῆς ὁμολογίας ταύτης δογματίζειν οἴονται δεῖν)· διὰ τοῦτο ὡς ἂν μὴ καὶ σ …

All forms of οὐσία (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.