ἐφημερία

Ancient Greek

Etymology

From ἐφήμερος (ephḗmeros, “daily”) +‎ -ίᾱ (-íā), from ἐπ(ί) (ep(í), “upon”, “on”) +‎ ἡμέρᾱ (hēmérā, “day”).

Pronunciation

 

• IPA^(key): /e.pʰɛː.me.rí.aː/ → /e.ɸi.meˈri.a/ → /e.fi.meˈri.a/

• (5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /e.pʰɛː.me.rí.aː/
• (1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /e.pʰe̝.meˈri.a/
• (4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /e.ɸi.meˈri.a/
• (10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /e.fi.meˈri.a/
• (15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /e.fi.meˈri.a/

Noun

ἐφημερῐ́ᾱ • (ephēmeríā) f (genitive ἐφημερῐ́ᾱς); first declension

1. (biblical) the division of priests for the daily service in a temple
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Chronicles 23.6
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, Nehemiah 23.30
   • 50 CE – 100 CE, The Gospel of Luke 1:5
2. (biblical) the service itself
   • 300 BCE – 200 BCE, Septuagint, 1 Esdras 1.16

Declension

First declension of ἡ ἐφημερῐ́ᾱ; τῆς ἐφημερῐ́ᾱς (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ἡ ἐφημερῐ́ᾱ hē ephēmeríā	τὼ ἐφημερῐ́ᾱ tṑ ephēmeríā	αἱ ἐφημερῐ́αι hai ephēmeríai
Genitive	τῆς ἐφημερῐ́ᾱς tês ephēmeríās	τοῖν ἐφημερῐ́αιν toîn ephēmeríain	τῶν ἐφημερῐῶν tôn ephēmeriôn
Dative	τῇ ἐφημερῐ́ᾳ têi ephēmeríāi	τοῖν ἐφημερῐ́αιν toîn ephēmeríain	ταῖς ἐφημερῐ́αις taîs ephēmeríais
Accusative	τὴν ἐφημερῐ́ᾱν tḕn ephēmeríān	τὼ ἐφημερῐ́ᾱ tṑ ephēmeríā	τᾱ̀ς ἐφημερῐ́ᾱς tā̀s ephēmeríās
Vocative	ἐφημερῐ́ᾱ ephēmeríā	ἐφημερῐ́ᾱ ephēmeríā	ἐφημερῐ́αι ephēmeríai
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Synonyms

• ἐφημερῐ́ς (ephēmerís)

Further reading

• “ἐφημερία”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ἐφημερία”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ἐφημερία in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• G2183 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible