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ἔπαλξις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔπαλξις ἔπαλξεως

Structure: ἐπαλξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pale/cw

Sense

  1. a means of defence, battlements, the battlements, parapet
  2. a defence, protection

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἔπαλξις ἐπάλξει ἐπάλξεις
Genitive ἐπάλξεως ἐπάλξοιν ἐπάλξεων
Dative ἐπάλξει ἐπάλξοιν ἐπάλξεσιν*
Accusative έ̓παλξιν ἐπάλξει ἐπάλξεις
Vocative έ̓παλξι ἐπάλξει ἐπάλξεις

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

  • εἰ τεῖχόσ ἐστιν, οἰκοδομήσωμεν ἐπ̓ αὐτὴν ἐπάλξεισ ἀργυρᾶσ. καὶ εἰ θύρα ἐστί, διαγράψωμεν ἐπ̓ αὐτὴν σανίδα κεδρίνην. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 8:9)
  • Τὸ ὅραμα τῆσ Ἰδουμαίασ. ‐ Πρὸσ ἐμὲ καλεῖ παρὰ τοῦ Σηείρ. φυλάσσετε ἐπάλξεισ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 21:11)
  • καὶ θήσω τὰσ ἐπάλξεισ σου ἴασπιν καὶ τὰσ πύλασ σου λίθουσ κρυστάλλου καὶ τὸν περίβολόν σου λίθουσ ἐκλεκτοὺς (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 54:12)
  • κατακρατήσατε αὐτήν. παρελύθησαν αἱ χεῖρεσ αὐτῆσ, ἔπεσαν αἱ ἐπάλξεισ αὐτῆσ καὶ κατεσκάφη τὸ τεῖχοσ αὐτῆσ, ὅτι ἐκδίκησισ παρὰ Θεοῦ ἐστιν. ἐκδικεῖτε ἐπ’ αὐτήν. καθὼσ ἐποίησε, ποιήσατε αὐτῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 27:15)
  • τεῖχοσ δὲ ἐπάλξεισ ἔχον καὶ καταστρώματα διὰ νεὼσ ἐπὶ κιλλιβάντων κατεσκεύαστο· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 5, book 5, chapter 43 1:2)

Synonyms

  1. a means of defence

  2. a defence

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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