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ἑξάμηνος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἑξάμηνος ἑξάμηνον

Structure: ἑξαμην (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of, lasting six months, a half-year

Examples

  • Ἐν ἔτει τριακοστῷ καὶ ὀγδόῳ τῷ Ἀζαρίου βασιλεῖ Ἰούδα ἐβασίλευσε Ζαχαρίασ υἱὸσ Ἱεροβοὰμ ἐπὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἐν Σαμαρείᾳ ἑξάμηνον. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 15:8)
  • ἓξ ἐγεννήθησαν αὐτῷ ἐν Χεβρών, καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἐκεῖ ἑπτὰ ἔτη καὶ ἑξάμηνον. καὶ τριάκοντα καὶ τρία ἔτη ἐβασίλευσεν ἐν Ἱερουσαλήμ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 3:4)
  • εἶναι γὰρ ἑξάμηνον, ὅτι καὶ τὸν ἥλιον ἀπὸ τροπῶν ἐν τοσούτῳ χρόνῳ παραγίνεσθαι λέγεσθαι δ’ ἑπταμηνιαίουσ διὰ τὸ τὰσ ἐλλειπούσασ ἡμέρασ τούτου τοῦ μηνὸσ ἐν τῷ ἑπτὰ προσλαμβάνεσθαι· (Pseudo-Plutarch, Placita Philosophorum, book 5, 7:1)
  • χρόνου δ’ εἶναι μέτρον τῇ νέᾳ ἀρχῇ μῆνασ ἕξ, μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἑξάμηνον αὖθισ ἄρχειν τοὺσ ὑπάτουσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 70 2:1)
  • οἱ δὲ φαλακροὶ οὗτοι λέγουσι, ἐμοὶ μὲν οὐ πιστὰ λέγοντεσ, οἰκέειν τὰ ὄρεα αἰγίποδασ ἄνδρασ, ὑπερβάντι δὲ τούτουσ ἀνθρώπουσ ἄλλουσ οἳ τὴν ἑξάμηνον κατεύδουσι. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 4, chapter 25 1:3)

Synonyms

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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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