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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 ἤλθοσαν εἰσ Αἰλείμ, καὶ ἦσαν ἐκεῖ δώδεκα πηγαὶ ὑδάτων καὶ ἑβδομήκοντα στελέχη φοινίκων. παρενέβαλον δὲ ἐκεῖ παρὰ τὰ ὕδατα. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 15:27)
  • καὶ λήψεσθε τῇ ἡμέρᾳ τῇ πρώτῃ καρπὸν ξύλου ὡραῖον καὶ κάλλυνθρα φοινίκων, καὶ κλάδουσ ξύλου δασεῖσ καὶ ἰτέασ καὶ ἄγνου κλάδουσ ἐκ χειμάρρου, εὐφρανθῆναι ἔναντι Κυρίου τοῦ Θεοῦ ὑμῶν ἑπτὰ ἡμέρασ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 23:40)
  • καὶ ἀπῇραν ἐκ Πικριῶν καὶ ἦλθον εἰσ Αἰλίμ. καὶ ἐν Αἰλὶμ δώδεκα πηγαὶ ὑδάτων καὶ ἑβδομήκοντα στελέχη φοινίκων, καὶ παρενέβαλον ἐκεῖ παρὰ τὸ ὕδωρ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 33:9)
  • καὶ τὴν ἔρημον καὶ τὰ περίχωρα Ἱεριχώ, πόλιν φοινίκων ἕωσ Σηγώρ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 34:3)
  • ἐν ταύτῃ τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἐξέλιπε τὸ μάννα μετὰ τὸ βεβρωκέναι αὐτοὺσ ἐκ τοῦ σίτου τῆσ γῆσ, καὶ οὐκέτι ὑπῆρχε τοῖσ υἱοῖσ Ἰσραὴλ μάννα. ἐκαρπίσαντο δὲ τὴν χώραν τῶν Φοινίκων ἐν τῷ ἐνιαυτῷ ἐκείνῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 5:12)

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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