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ἀπαρχή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀπαρχή

Structure: ἀπαρχ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: from a)pa/rxomai

Sense

  1. the beginning of a sacrifice, the primal offering
  2. the firstlings, first-fruits

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

  • Καὶ κατέστησαν ἐν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐκείνῃ ἄνδρασ ἐπὶ τῶν γαζοφυλακίων, τοῖσ θυσαυροῖσ, ταῖσ ἀπαρχαῖσ καὶ ταῖσ δεκάταισ καὶ τοῖσ συνηγμένοισ ἐν αὐτοῖσ ἄρχουσι τῶν πόλεων, μερίδασ τοῖσ ἱερεῦσι καὶ τοῖσ Λευίταισ, ὅτι εὐφροσύνη ἦν ἐν Ἰούδᾳ ἐπὶ τοὺσ ἱερεῖσ καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺσ Λευίτασ τοὺσ ἑστῶτασ. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 12:40)
  • καὶ ἐν ταῖσ ἀπαρχαῖσ τῶν δομάτων ὑμῶν, ἐν τοῖσ ἀφορισμοῖσ, οἷσ ὑμεῖσ μιαίνεσθε ἐν πᾶσι τοῖσ ἐνθυμήμασιν ὑμῶν ἕωσ τῆσ σήμερον ἡμέρασ, καὶ ἐγὼ ἀποκριθῶ ὑμῖν, οἶκοσ τοῦ Ἰσραήλ̣ ζῶ ἐγώ, λέγει Κύριοσ, εἰ ἀποκριθήσομαι ὑμῖν, καὶ εἰ ἀναβήσεται ἐπὶ τὸ πνεῦμα ὑμῶν τοῦτο. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 20:31)
  • "ἑστιώμενοσ ἐν Καλλίου τῷ μύρῳ πολεμεῖ μόνον, ὀρχήσεισ δὲ παίδων καὶ κυβιστήσεισ καὶ φιλήματα καὶ γελωτοποιοὺσ ὁρῶν ἀνέχεται καὶ σύ μοι δοκεῖσ ὁμοίωσ γύναιον εἴργειν τοῦ ἱεροῦ χρησάμενον ὡρ́ᾳ σώματοσ οὐκ ἐλευθερίωσ, φόνων δὲ καὶ πολέμων καὶ λεηλασιῶν ἀπαρχαῖσ καὶ δεκάταισ κύκλῳ περιεχόμενον τὸν θεὸν ὁρῶν, καὶ τὸν νεὼν σκύλων Ἑλληνικῶν ἀνάπλεων καὶ λαφύρων οὐ δυσχεραίνεισ, οὐδ’ οἰκτίρεισ τοὺσ Ἕλληνασ ἐπὶ τῶν καλῶν ἀναθημάτων αἰσχίστασ ἀναγιγνώσκων ἐπιγραφὰσ Βρασίδασ καὶ Ἀκάνθιοι ἀπ’ Ἀθηναίων καὶ ̔ Ἀθηναῖοι ἀπὸ Κορινθίων καὶ Φωκεῖσ ἀπὸ Θεσσαλῶν, Ὀρνεᾶται δ’ ἀπὸ Σικυωνίων, Ἀμφικτύονεσ δ’ ἀπὸ Φωκέων. (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 15 1:2)
  • ἔτι δὲ μᾶλλον Ἐρετριεῖσ καὶ Μάγνητασ, ἀνθρώπων ἀπαρχαῖσ; (Plutarch, De Pythiae oraculis, section 16 5:1)
  • τὴν δὲ τότε ὑπὸ Ῥωμύλου καθιερωθεῖσαν ἑορτὴν ἔτι καὶ εἰσ ἐμὲ ἄγοντεσ Ῥωμαῖοι διετέλουν Κωνσουάλια καλοῦντεσ, ἐν ᾗ βωμόσ τε ὑπόγειοσ ἱδρυμένοσ παρὰ τῷ μεγίστῳ τῶν ἱπποδρόμων περισκαφείσησ τῆσ γῆσ θυσίαισ τε καὶ ὑπερπύροισ ἀπαρχαῖσ γεραίρεται, καὶ δρόμοσ ἵππων ζευκτῶν τε καὶ ἀζεύκτων ἐπιτελεῖται. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, book 2, chapter 31 3:1)

Synonyms

  1. the beginning of a sacrifice

  2. the firstlings

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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