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ἔπαλξις

Third declension Noun; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἔπαλξις ἔπαλξεως

Structure: ἐπαλξι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: e)pale/cw

Sense

a means of defence, battlements, the battlements, parapet
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

ΚΑΙ εἶπε πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ Ἰουδίθ. ἀκούσατε δή μου, ἀδελφοί, καὶ λαβόντεσ τὴν κεφαλὴν ταύτην κρεμάσατε αὐτὴν ἐπὶ τῆσ ἐπάλξεωσ τοῦ τείχουσ ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudith 14:1)
εἰ τεῖχόσ ἐστιν, οἰκοδομήσωμεν ἐπ̓ αὐτὴν ἐπάλξεισ ἀργυρᾶσ. καὶ εἰ θύρα ἐστί, διαγράψωμεν ἐπ̓ αὐτὴν σανίδα κεδρίνην. (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 8:9)
μακρὰν ἄπεχε ἀπὸ ἀνθρώπου, ὃσ ἔχει ἐξουσίαν τοῦ φονεύειν, καὶ οὐ μὴ ὑποπτεύσῃσ φόβον θανάτου. κἂν προσέλθῃσ, μὴ πλημμελήσῃσ, ἵνα μὴ ἀφέληται τὴν ζωήν σου. ἐπίγνωθι ὅτι ἐν μέσῳ παγίδων διαβαίνεισ καὶ ἐπὶ ἐπάλξεων πόλεων περιπατεῖσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 9:13)
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)
οὐ γὰρ ἔστιν ἔπαλξισ πλούτου πρὸσ κόρον ἀνδρὶ λακτίσαντι μέγαν Δίκασ βωμὸν εἰσ ἀφάνειαν. (Aeschylus, Agamemnon, choral, strophe 17)
ἡ γραῦσ ἡ φθονερὴ παρεκέκλιτο γείτονι κούρῃ δόχμιον ἐν λέκτρῳ νῶτον ἐρεισαμένη, προβλὴσ ὥσ τισ ἔπαλξισ ἀνέμβατοσ· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 2941)
ἅμα δὲ τὸ τεῖχόσ σφι, τὸ ἐν τῷ Ἰσθμῷ ἐτείχεον, καὶ ἤδη ἐπάλξισ ἐλάμβανε. (Herodotus, The Histories, book 9, chapter 7 2:2)

Synonyms

a means of defence
- ἀμυντήριον (a means of defence)
a defence
- ῥῦμα (a defence, protection, of defence)
- φράγμα (a defence)
- σκέπη (protection)

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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Sense

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a means of defence

a defence

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