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βύρσα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: βύρσα βύρσης

Structure: βυρς (Stem) + α (Ending)

Etym.: (어원이 불명확함.)

Sense

  1. the skin stripped off a hide
  2. the skin of a live animal

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 τὸν μόσχον καὶ τὴν βύρσαν αὐτοῦ καὶ τὰ κρέα αὐτοῦ καὶ τὴν κόπρον αὐτοῦ κατέκαυσεν αὐτὰ πυρὶ ἔξω τῆσ παρεμβολῆσ, ὃν τρόπον συνέταξε Κύριοσ τῷ Μωυσῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 8:17)
  • καὶ τὰ κρέα καὶ τὴν βύρσαν κατέκαυσεν αὐτὰ πυρί, ἔξω τῆσ παρεμβολῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 9:11)
  • σάκκον ἔρραψαν ἐπὶ βύρσησ μου, τὸ δὲ σθένοσ μου ἐν γῇ ἐσβέσθη. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 16:15)
  • πᾶν δὲ πλωτὸν συνελθὸν οὐ μὴ ἐνέγκωσι βύρσαν μίαν οὐρᾶσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν πλοίοισ ἁλιέων κεφαλὴν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 40:31)
  • σὺ δέ, ὦ παῖ, στλεγγίδα μοι καὶ βύρσαν καὶ φωσώνια καὶ ῥύμματα ναυστολεῖν ἐσ τὸ βαλανεῖον καὶ τοὐπίλουτρον κομίζειν· (Lucian, Lexiphanes, (no name) 2:3)
  • ἡ βύρσα σου θρανεύσεται. (Aristotle, Agon, pnigos3)
  • ἐξωθούμενοι δ’ ὑπὸ τῶν Λιβύων ἐδέοντο χωρίον ἐσ συνοικισμὸν λαβεῖν, ὅσον ἂν βύρσα ταύρου περιλάβοι. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 1:3)
  • καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦδε Βύρσα ὀνομάζεται. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 1 1:7)
  • ἁπλῷ τείχει περίκρημνα ὄντα, τὰ δὲ πρὸσ μεσημβρίαν ἐσ ἤπειρον, ἔνθα καὶ ἡ Βύρσα ἦν ἐπὶ τοῦ αὐχένοσ, τριπλῷ τείχει. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 14 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. the skin stripped off a hide

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