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αἱμάς

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: αἱμάς

Structure: αἱμ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: ai(=ma

Sense

  1. a gush or stream of blood

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative αἱμάς αἱμᾱ́ αἱμαί
Genitive αἱμοῦ αἱμαῖν αἱμῶν
Dative αἱμῇ αἱμαῖν αἱμαῖς
Accusative αἱμήν αἱμᾱ́ αἱμᾱ́ς
Vocative αἱμά αἱμᾱ́ αἱμαί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ νῦν ἐπικατάρατοσ σὺ ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ, ἣ ἔχανε τὸ στόμα αὐτῆσ δέξασθαι τὸ αἷμα τοῦ ἀδελφοῦ σου ἐκ τῆσ χειρόσ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 4:11)
  • καὶ γὰρ τὸ ὑμέτερον αἷμα τῶν ψυχῶν ὑμῶν ἐκ χειρὸσ πάντων τῶν θηρίων ἐκζητήσω αὐτὸ καὶ ἐκ χειρὸσ ἀνθρώπου ἀδελφοῦ ἐκζητήσω τὴν ψυχὴν τοῦ ἀνθρώπου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 9:5)
  • ὁ ἐκχέων αἷμα ἀνθρώπου, ἀντὶ τοῦ αἵματοσ αὐτοῦ ἐκχυθήσεται, ὅτι ἐν εἰκόνι Θεοῦ ἐποίησα τὸν ἄνθρωπον. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 9:6)
  • εἶπε δὲ αὐτοῖσ Ρουβήν. μὴ ἐκχέητε αἷμα. ἐμβάλλετε αὐτὸν εἰσ ἕνα τῶν λάκκων τούτων τῶν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, χεῖρα δὲ μὴ ἐπενέγκητε αὐτῷ. ὅπωσ ἐξέληται αὐτὸν ἐκ τῶν χειρῶν αὐτῶν καὶ ἀποδῷ αὐτὸν τῷ πατρὶ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 37:22)
  • εἶπε δὲ Ἰούδασ πρὸσ τούσ ἀδελφοὺσ αὐτοῦ. τί χρήσιμον, ἐὰν ἀποκτείνωμεν τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἡμῶν καὶ κρύψωμεν τὸ αἷμα αὐτοῦ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 37:26)

Synonyms

  1. a gush or stream of blood

Related

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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