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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative βύρσα βύρσᾱ βύρσαι
Genitive βύρσης βύρσαιν βυρσῶν
Dative βύρσῃ βύρσαιν βύρσαις
Accusative βύρσαν βύρσᾱ βύρσᾱς
Vocative βύρσα βύρσᾱ βύρσαι

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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