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φοῖνιξ

Third declension Noun; Masculine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: φοῖνιξ φοῖνικος

Structure: φοινικ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. purple or crimson
  2. palm tree
  3. date (the fruit of the date palm)
  4. phoenix, the mythical bird derived from Egyptian mythology
  5. A guitar-like instrument invented by the Phoenicians

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 δύο θύρασ ξύλων πευκίνων καὶ ἐγκολαπτὸν ἐπ̓ αὐτῶν ἐγκεκολαμμένα Χερουβὶμ καὶ φοίνικασ καὶ πέταλα διαπεπετασμένα. καὶ περιέσχε χρυσίῳ καὶ κατέβαινεν ἐπὶ τὰ Χερουβὶμ καὶ ἐπὶ τοὺσ φοίνικασ τὸ χρυσίον. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 6:31)
  • καὶ τὸν οἶκον τὸν μέγαν ἐξύλωσε ξύλοισ κεδρίνοισ καὶ κατεχρύσωσε χρυσίῳ καθαρῷ καὶ ἔγλυψεν ἐπ’ αὐτοῦ φοίνικασ καὶ χαλαστά. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 3:5)
  • διὸ θύρσουσ καὶ κλάδουσ ὡραίουσ, ἔτι δὲ φοίνικασ ἔχοντεσ ὕμνουσ ἀνέφερον τῷ εὐοδώσαντι καθαρισθῆναι τὸν ἑαυτοῦ τόπον. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 10:7)
  • καὶ τὰ θεὲ τρεῖσ ἔνθεν καὶ τρεῖσ ἔνθεν καὶ τὰ αἰλεῦ καὶ τὰ αἰλαμμὼ καὶ τοὺσ φοίνικασ αὐτῆσ, καὶ ἐγένετο κατὰ τὰ μέτρα τῆσ πύλησ τῆσ βλεπούσησ κατὰ ἀνατολὰσ πηχῶν πεντήκοντα τὸ μῆκοσ αὐτῆσ καὶ πηχῶν εἰκοσιπέντε τὸ εὖροσ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 40:21)

Synonyms

  1. palm tree

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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