ἐλέφᾱς
Third declension Noun; Masculine
Transliteration:
Principal Part:
ἐλέφᾱς
ἐλέφαντος
Structure:
ἐλεφαντ
(Stem)
+
ς
(Ending)
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.
- 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 ἦν ὁ ἀριθμὸσ τῶν δυνάμεων αὐτοῦ ἑκατὸν χιλιάδεσ τῶν πεζῶν καὶ εἴκοσι χιλιάδεσ ἵππων καὶ ἐλέφαντεσ δύο καὶ τριάκοντα εἰδότεσ πόλεμον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 6:30)
- καὶ διεῖλον τὰ θηρία εἰσ τὰσ φάλαγγασ καὶ παρέστησαν ἑκάστῳ ἐλέφαντι χιλίουσ ἄνδρασ τεθωρακισμένουσ ἐν ἁλυσιδωτοῖσ, καὶ περικεφαλαῖαι χαλκαῖ ἐπὶ τῶν κεφαλῶν αὐτῶν, καὶ πεντακόσιοι ἵπποι διατεταγμένοι ἑκάστῳ θηρίῳ ἐκλελεγμένοι. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 6:35)
- καὶ εἰσέδυ ὑπὸ τὸν ἐλέφαντα καὶ ὑπέθεκεν αὐτῷ καὶ ἀνεῖλεν αὐτόν, καὶ ἔπεσεν ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν ἐπάνω αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἀπέθανεν ἐκεῖ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 6:46)
- 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)
- ἐμὲ γοῦν ποτε καὶ αὐτὸν οὐχ ἧττον ἢ σὲ νῦν ἐξέπληττε μὲν χρυσὸσ ὡσ κτῆμα τῶν ἄλλων οὐδενὶ παραβλητὸν ᾕρει δ’ ἄργυροσ καὶ ἐλέφασ· (Plutarch, Bruta animalia ratione uti, chapter, section 6 6:1)
- θυμόσοφον γὰρ εἴπερ τι ἄλλο θηρίον ἐλέφασ, καί τινεσ ἤδη αὐτῶν τοὺσ ἀμβάτασ σφῶν ἐν πολέμῳ ἀποθανόντασ ἄραντεσ αὐτοὶ ἐξήνεγκαν ἐσ ταφήν, οἳ δὲ καὶ ὑπερήσπισαν κειμένουσ, οἳ δὲ καὶ πεσόντων προεκινδύνευσαν, ὃ δέ τισ πρὸσ ὀργὴν ἀποκτείνασ τὸν ἀμβάτην ὑπὸ μετανοίησ τε καὶ ἀθυμίησ ἀπέθανεν. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 14 4:1)
- βαίνεται δὲ ἐλέφασ ἦροσ ὡρ́ῃ, κατάπερ βοῦσ ἢ ἵπποσ, ἐπεὰν τῇσι θηλέῃσιν αἱ παρὰ τοῖσι κροτάφοισιν ἀναπνοαὶ ἀνοιχθεῖσαι ἐκπνέωσι. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 14 7:1)
- βασιλικὸν γὰρ ὄχημα ὁ ἐλέφασ παῤ Ἰνδοῖσίν ἐστι, δεύτερον δὲ τιμῇ τὰ τέθριππα, τρίτον δὲ αἱ κάμηλοι. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 17 2:1)
- πῶσ γὰρ ἤλεκτρον καὶ ἄργυροσ καὶ ἐλέφασ ἐν τοῖσ τοίχοισ ἦν; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 14 3:3)