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ἄμη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄμη

Structure: ἀμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a shovel or mattock

Declension

First 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

  • ἀλλ’ ὅμωσ οὗτοσ τοιοῦτοσ ὢν ἅπαντα τὸν βίον, κᾆτ’ ἀνὴρ ἔδοξεν εἶναι, τἀλλότριον ἀμῶν θέροσ. (Aristotle, Agon, trochees1)
  • ἔνθεν ὀλόμενον σκάφοσ συναρμόσασ ὁ Πριαμίδασ ἔπλευσε βαρβάρῳ πλάτᾳ τὰν ἐμὰν ἐφ’ ἑστίαν, ἐπὶ τὸ δυστυχέστατον κάλλοσ, ὡσ ἕλοι, γάμων ἀμῶν· (Euripides, Helen, choral, epode2)
  • καὶ ἐκοιμήθη Μανασσῆσ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν τῷ κήπῳ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτοῦ, ἐν κήπω Ὀζά, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀμὼν υἱὸσ αὐτοῦ ἀντ̓ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 21:18)
  • Υἱὸσ εἴκοσι καὶ δύο ἐτῶν Ἀμὼν ἐν τῷ βασιλεύειν αὐτὸν καὶ δύο ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ, καὶ ὄνομα τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ Μεσολλὰμ θυγάτηρ Ἀροῦσ ἐξ Ἰετέβα. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 21:19)
  • καὶ συνεστράφησαν οἱ παῖδεσ Ἀμὼν πρὸσ αὐτὸν καὶ ἐθανάτωσαν τὸν βασιλέα ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 21:23)
  • καὶ ἐπάταξεν ὁ λαὸσ τῆσ γῆσ πάντασ τοὺσ συστραφέντασ ἐπὶ τὸν βασιλέα Ἀμὼν καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ὁ λαὸσ τῆσ γῆσ τὸν Ἰωσίαν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ ἀντ̓ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 21:24)
  • καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ τῶν λόγων Ἀμών, ὅσα ἐποίησεν, οὐκ ἰδοὺ ταῦτα γεγραμμένα ἐπὶ βιβλίῳ λόγων τῶν ἡμερῶν τοῖσ βασιλεῦσιν Ἰούδα̣ (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 21:25)

Synonyms

  1. a shovel or mattock

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

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