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ἄκρις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκρις ἄκριος

Structure: ἀκρι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. hill-top, mountain peak,

Declension

Third declension

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

  • εἶπε δὲ Κύριοσ πρὸσ Μωυσῆν. ἔκτεινον τὴν χεῖρα ἐπὶ γῆν Αἰγύπτου, καὶ ἀναβήτω ἀκρὶσ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν καὶ κατέδεται πᾶσαν βοτάνην τῆσ γῆσ καὶ πάντα τὸν καρπὸν τῶν ξύλων, ὃν ὑπελίπετο ἡ χάλαζα. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 10:12)
  • καὶ ἀνήγαγεν αὐτὴν ἐπὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν Αἰγύπτου, καὶ κατέπαυσεν ἐπὶ πάντα τὰ ὅρια Αἰγύπτου πολλὴ σφόδρα. προτέρα αὐτῆσ οὐ γέγονε τοιαύτη ἀκρὶσ καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα οὐκ ἔσται οὕτωσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 10:14)
  • καὶ μετέβαλε Κύριοσ ἄνεμον ἀπὸ θαλάσσησ σφοδρόν, καὶ ἀνέλαβε τὸν ἀκρίδα καὶ ἔβαλεν αὐτὴν εἰσ τὴν ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν, καὶ οὐχ ὑπελείφθη ἀκρὶσ μία ἐν πάσῃ γῇ Αἰγύπτου. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 10:19)
  • σπέρμα πολὺ ἐξοίσεισ εἰσ τὸ πεδίον καὶ ὀλίγα εἰσοίσεισ, ὅτι κατέδεται αὐτὰ ἡ ἀκρίσ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 28:38)
  • ὅτι αὐτοὶ καὶ αἱ κτήσεισ αὐτῶν ἀνέβαινον καὶ αἱ σκηναὶ αὐτῶν παρεγίνοντο καθὼσ ἀκρὶσ εἰσ πλῆθοσ, καὶ αὐτοῖσ καὶ ταῖσ καμήλοισ αὐτῶν οὐκ ἦν ἀριθμόσ, καὶ ἤρχοντο εἰσ τὴν γῆν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ διέφθειρον αὐτήν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 6:5)

Synonyms

  1. hill-top

Similar forms

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

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