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Strong's #2821 - κλῆσις
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κλῆσις, εως, ἡ,
(καλέω)
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1. calling, call, Pl. Smp. 172a, X. Cyr. 3.2.14, etc.
2. calling into court, summons, prosecution, Ar. Nu. 875, 1189, etc.; τὰς κλήσεις καλεῖσθαι ὅσας ἔδει Antipho 6.38; ἀφιέναι τὰς κ. X. HG 1.7.13.
3. invitation to a feast, Id. Smp. 1.7; εἰς τὸ πρυτανεῖον D. 19.32; κλήσεις δείπνων Plu. Per. 7, cf. Parmenisc. ap. Ath. 4.156d.
4. invocation, θεῶν Men.Rh. p.333 S.
5. calling to aid, Plb. 2.50.7.
6. calling in a religious sense, 1 Corinthians 7:20.
II name, appellation, Pl. Plt. 262d, 287e, Dsc. 1.42; τοὺς θεοὺς εἶναι κ. ἱεράς Cleanth.Stoic. 1.123; Φιλησίη τὴν κ. by name, IG 14.2067; reputation, Phld. Rh. 2.46 S.
III Gramm., αἱ κ. τῶν ὀνομάτων the nominatives, opp. αἱ πτώσεις (the oblique cases), Arist. APr. 48b41; ἔχειν θηλείας ἢ ἄρρενος κλῆσιν the nominative form of.., Id. SE 173b40, cf. 182a18. = Lat. classis, D.H. 4.18.
κλῆσις , -εως , ἡ (καλέω ),
[in LXX: Jeremiah 31:6 (H7121), Judith 12:10 A, 3 Maccabees 5:14 *;]
a calling, call; in NT, always of the Divine call to salvation: Romans 11:29, 1 Corinthians 1:26; 1 Corinthians 7:20, Ephesians 1:18; Ephesians 4:1; Ephesians 4:4, Philippians 3:14, 2 Thessalonians 1:11, 2 Timothy 1:9, Hebrews 3:1, 2 Peter 1:10 (Cremer, 332).†
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A section of the long legal P Hal I. 1 (mid. iii/B.C.) is headed—.222 Εἰς μαρτ [υρί ]αν κλῆσις, ";a call to witness"; : then follows a description of the process. The word is used in the same restricted sense in Epict. i. 29. 49 ταῦτα μέλλεις μαρτυρεῖν καὶ καταισχύνειν τὴν κλῆσιν ἣν κέκληκεν [ὁ θεός ]; cf. ib. l.c. 46 ὡς μαρτὺς ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ κεκλημένος, and see further Bonhöffer Epict. pp. 37 ff., 207 f. The meaning is raised to a higher power in such passages as Ephesians 4:1, where, as always in the NT, κλῆσις is the divine call to salvation. In the sepulchral epitaph of a young child, Kaibel 571.4 (i/ii A.D.), the word is used = ";name";—
Φιλησίη τὴν κλῆσιν, Αὐσονὶς γένος.
And in the magical P Leid V ix. 30 (iii/iv A.D.) (= II. p. 33) τελοῦντος δέ σου, καθ᾽ ἑκάστην κλῆσιν ἐπίσπενδε τὰ προκείμενα, the editor (p. 68) understands by καθ᾽ ἑκ. κλ. ";ad singulas invocaliones, i.e. quotiescumque haec invocatio pronuntiabitur.";
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