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ἐπιθέσεως (epitheseos)

ἐπιθέσεως is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπίθεσις, meaning “attack; laying on”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 38 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 1: … προσφέρουσι τὰς διὰ τῶν φαρμάκων βοηθείας, ἀλλʼ ἐῶσι τὸ βαρῦνον τῆς φλεγμονῆς δίχα τῆς τῶν ἔξωθεν περιχρίστων ἐπιθέσεως αὐτὸ διʼ αὑτοῦ λαβεῖν πέψιν.

New Testament, Hebrews 6.2: βαπτισμῶν διδαχὴν ἐπιθέσεώς τε χειρῶν, ἀναστάσεως νεκρῶν καὶ κρίματος αἰωνίου.

All forms of ἐπίθεσις (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.