ἔκστασις
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ἐξίστημι (exístēmi, “I displace”) from ἐκ (ek, “out”) and ἵστημι (hístēmi, “I stand”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /éks.ta.sis/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ˈeks.ta.sis/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ˈeks.ta.sis/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ˈeks.ta.sis/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ˈeks.ta.sis/
Noun
ἔκστᾰσῐς • (ékstasis) f (genitive ἐκστᾰ́σεως); third declension
- displacement from proper place
- displacement of the mind: amazement, astonishment, bewilderment
- trance, ecstasy
Inflection
Case / # | Singular | Dual | Plural | ||||||||||
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Nominative | ἡ ἔκστᾰσῐς hē ékstasis |
τὼ ἐκστᾰ́σει tṑ ekstásei |
αἱ ἐκστᾰ́σεις hai ekstáseis | ||||||||||
Genitive | τῆς ἐκστᾰ́σεως tês ekstáseōs |
τοῖν ἐκστᾰσέοιν toîn ekstaséoin |
τῶν ἐκστᾰ́σεων tôn ekstáseōn | ||||||||||
Dative | τῇ ἐκστᾰ́σει têi ekstásei |
τοῖν ἐκστᾰσέοιν toîn ekstaséoin |
ταῖς ἐκστᾰ́σεσῐ / ἐκστᾰ́σεσῐν taîs ekstásesi(n) | ||||||||||
Accusative | τὴν ἔκστᾰσῐν tḕn ékstasin |
τὼ ἐκστᾰ́σει tṑ ekstásei |
τᾱ̀ς ἐκστᾰ́σεις tā̀s ekstáseis | ||||||||||
Vocative | ἔκστᾰσῐ ékstasi |
ἐκστᾰ́σει ekstásei |
ἐκστᾰ́σεις ekstáseis | ||||||||||
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Descendants
Further reading
- “ἔκστασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἔκστασις”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἔκστασις in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἔκστασις in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G1611 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible