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βάμμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: βάμμα

Structure: βαμματ (Stem)

Etym.: ba/ptw

Sense

  1. that in which a thing is dipped, dye

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

  • Ὁ δὲ ἀρχιερεὺσ κοσμεῖται μὲν καὶ ταύτῃ παραλιπὼν οὐδὲν τῶν προειρημένων, ἐπενδυσάμενοσ δ’ ἐξ ὑακίνθου πεποιημένον χιτῶνα, ποδήρησ δ’ ἐστὶ καὶ οὗτοσ, μεεὶρ καλεῖται κατὰ τὴν ἡμετέραν γλῶσσαν, ζώνῃ περισφίγγεται βάμμασιν οἷσ ἡ πρότερον ἤνθει διαπεποικιλμένῃ χρυσοῦ συνυφασμένου· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 201:1)
  • καὶ τοῦτο ἦν ἀσφάλεια τῷ ἐσσήνῃ πρὸσ τὸ μὴ περιρρεῖν, ζώνη δὲ τῷ ἐσσήνῃ προσέρραπτο βάμμασιν οἷσ προεῖπον μετὰ χρυσίου προσφερήσ, ἣ περιοδεύσασα δεῖται πάλιν ἐπὶ τῇ ῥαφῇ καὶ κατακρεμνᾶται· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 214:1)

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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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