Ασπαζόμενος την Αγία Δεξιά σας ζητώ την Ευχή σας

English translation: I kiss your Holy Right Hand and request your Benediction (and/or Blessing)

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Greek term or phrase:Ασπαζόμενος την Αγία Δεξιά σας ζητώ την Ευχή σας
English translation:I kiss your Holy Right Hand and request your Benediction (and/or Blessing)
Entered by: Nadia-Anastasia Fahmi

13:52 Jul 14, 2004
Greek to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Religion
Greek term or phrase: Ασπαζόμενος την Αγία Δεξιά σας ζητώ την Ευχή σας
Έτσι αρχίζει την επιστολή του ένας αγιογράφος, υπάρχει μετάφραση ή να βάλλω μόνο: May I ask for your blessing
Gabrijela
Local time: 05:23
I kiss your Holy Right Hand and request your Benediction (and/or Blessing)
Explanation:
... by name (3 John 4); greeting by right hand of fellowship ... in the morning, says "I'll be true to you.". The holy kiss was a common practice among early believers. ...
www.brfwitness.org/NTP/kissofcharity.htm

... I kiss your right hand: bless all of my heartbeats, thoughts ... Mama, and kissing your Heart, I beg you to place ... respect, or in order not to use holy violence on ...
biblia.com/christ/mother.htm

THE HOLY RIGHT HAND. These pictures show the hand-relic of the first
Hungarian Christian king Saint Stephen I. (1000-1038) which ...
www.historicaltextarchive.com/hungary/hand.html

... V. The Lord be with you. R. And with your spirit. Let us pray. Lend a willing ear, Lord God, to our prayers, and bless this vehicle with Your holy right hand. ...
www.yenra.com/catholic/ prayers/blessingofanautomobile.html
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Nadia-Anastasia Fahmi
Greece
Local time: 05:23
Grading comment
ευχαριστώ πολύ!
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5 +3I kiss your Holy Right Hand and request your Benediction (and/or Blessing)
Nadia-Anastasia Fahmi


  

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Ασπαζόμενος την Αγία Δεξιά σας ζητώ την Ευχή σας
I kiss your Holy Right Hand and request your Benediction (and/or Blessing)


Explanation:
... by name (3 John 4); greeting by right hand of fellowship ... in the morning, says "I'll be true to you.". The holy kiss was a common practice among early believers. ...
www.brfwitness.org/NTP/kissofcharity.htm

... I kiss your right hand: bless all of my heartbeats, thoughts ... Mama, and kissing your Heart, I beg you to place ... respect, or in order not to use holy violence on ...
biblia.com/christ/mother.htm

THE HOLY RIGHT HAND. These pictures show the hand-relic of the first
Hungarian Christian king Saint Stephen I. (1000-1038) which ...
www.historicaltextarchive.com/hungary/hand.html

... V. The Lord be with you. R. And with your spirit. Let us pray. Lend a willing ear, Lord God, to our prayers, and bless this vehicle with Your holy right hand. ...
www.yenra.com/catholic/ prayers/blessingofanautomobile.html

Nadia-Anastasia Fahmi
Greece
Local time: 05:23
Native speaker of: Native in GreekGreek, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20
Grading comment
ευχαριστώ πολύ!

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Vicky Papaprodromou: Θα προτιμούσα το "blessing" ή και "eulogy" για τα δεδομένα της Ορθόδοξης Εκκλησίας.//To είδα που το δίνεις ως εναλλακτική λέξη κι απλώς το τόνισα για να το δει η Γαβριέλα. Άσε που έχω θολώσει και λέω ότι θέλω..."eulogia" εννοούσα.
21 mins
  -> Το "blessing" το δίνω ως εναλλακτική... το "eulogy" δεν θα το συνιστούσα εφόσον σημαίνει αίνος, εγκώμιο, εξύμνηση, επικήδειος λόγος!

agree  Eva Karpouzi
8 hrs
  -> Ευχαριστώ Εύα!

agree  Evdoxia R. (X)
18 hrs
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