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εἴρη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἴρη

Structure: εἰρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: e)rw=

Sense

  1. a place of assembly

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative εἴρη εί̓ρᾱ εῖ̓ραι
Genitive εί̓ρᾱς εί̓ραιν εἰρῶν
Dative εί̓ρᾱͅ εί̓ραιν εί̓ραις
Accusative εί̓ρᾱν εί̓ρᾱ εί̓ρᾱς
Vocative εί̓ρᾱ εί̓ρᾱ εῖ̓ραι

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

  • ΕΓΕΝΕΤΟ δέ ἐν τῷ καιρῷ ἐκείνῳ, κατέβη Ἰούδασ ἀπὸ τῶν ἀδελφῶν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἀφίκετο ἕωσ πρὸσ ἄνθρωπόν τινα Ὀδολλαμίτην, ᾧ ὄνομα Εἰράσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 38:1)
  • Ἐπληθύνθησαν δὲ αἱ ἡμέραι καὶ ἀπέθανε Σαυὰ ἡ γυνὴ Ἰούδα. καὶ παρακληθεὶσ Ἰούδασ ἀνέβη ἐπὶ τοὺσ κείροντασ τά πρόβατα αὐτοῦ, αὐτὸσ καὶ Εἰρὰσ ὁ ποιμὴν αὐτοῦ ὁ Ὀδολλαμίτησ εἰσ Θαμνά. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 38:12)
  • δεκάτῳ δ’ ἐπιμίσγεται αὖτισ εἴρασ ἐσ ἀθανάτων, οἳ Ὀλύμπια δώματ’ ἔχουσιν. (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 74:13)
  • καὶ προσεπεῖπε Καῖσαρ ὡσ Ἀντώνιοσ μὲν ὑπὸ φαρμάκων οὐδὲ αὑτοῦ κρατοίη, πολεμοῦσι δ’ αὐτοῖσ Μαρδίων ὁ εὐνοῦχοσ καὶ Ποθεινὸσ καὶ Εἰρὰσ ἡ Κλεοπάτρασ κουρεύτρια καὶ Χάρμιον, ὑφ’ ὧν τὰ μέγιστα διοικεῖται τῆσ ἡγεμονίασ. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 60 1:2)
  • τῶν δὲ γυναικῶν ἡ μὲν Εἰρὰσ λεγομένη πρὸσ τοῖσ ποσὶν ἀπέθνησκεν, ἡ δὲ Χάρμιον ἤδη σφαλλομένη καὶ καρηβαροῦσα κατεκόσμει τὸ διάδημα τὸ περὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν αὐτῆσ. (Plutarch, Antony, chapter 85 4:1)

Synonyms

  1. a place of assembly

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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