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ἐλέφᾱς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλέφᾱς ἐλέφαντος

Structure: ἐλεφαντ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. ivory
  2. elephant

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

  • καὶ παρέδωκεν αὐτῷ τὰσ ἡμίσεισ τῶν δυνάμεων καὶ τοὺσ ἐλέφαντασ καὶ ἐνετείλατο αὐτῷ περὶ πάντων, ὦν ἐβούλετο, καὶ περὶ τῶν κατοικούντων τὴν Ἰουδαίαν καὶ Ἱερουσαλὴμ (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 3:34)
  • καὶ Ἀντίοχον τὸν μέγαν βασιλέα τῆσ Ἀσίασ τὸν πορευθέντα ἐπ̓ αὐτοὺσ εἰσ πόλεμον ἔχοντα ἑκατὸν εἴκοσιν ἐλέφαντασ καὶ ἵππον καὶ ἅρματα καὶ δύναμιν πολλὴν σφόδρα, καὶ συνετρίβη ὑπ̓ αὐτῶν, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 8:6)
  • καὶ σὺ αὐτῷ Λυσίαν τὸν ἐπίτροπον καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων, ἕκαστον ἔχοντα δύναμιν Ἑλληνικὴν πεζῶν μυριάδασ ἕνδεκα καὶ ἱππεῖσ πεντακισχιλίουσ τριακοσίουσ καὶ ἐλέφαντασ εἰκοσιδύο, ἅρματα δὲ δρεπανηφόρα τριακόσια. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 13:2)
  • ἐκέλευσεν ὑπὸ τὴν ἐπερχομένην ἡμέραν δαψιλέσι δράκεσι λιβανωτοῦ καὶ οἴνῳ πλείονι ἀκράτῳ ἅπαντασ τοὺσ ἐλέφαντασ ποτίσαι, ὄντασ τὸν ἀριθμὸν πεντακοσίουσ, καὶ ἀγριωθέντασ τῇ τοῦ πόματοσ ἀφθόνῳ χορηγίᾳ εἰσαγαγεῖν πρὸσ συνάντησιν τοῦ μόρου τῶν Ἰουδαίων. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 5:2)
  • Ὁ δὲ Ἕρμων τοὺσ ἀνηλεεῖσ ἐλέφαντασ ποτίσασ πεπληρωμένουσ τῆσ τοῦ οἴνου πολλῆσ χορηγίασ καὶ τοῦ λιβάνου μεμεστωμένουσ, ὄρθροισ ἐπὶ τὴν αὐλὴν παρῆν περὶ τούτων προσαγγεῖλαι τῷ βασιλεῖ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees III 5:10)

Synonyms

  1. elephant

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