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φοινίκη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: φοινίκη

Structure: φοινικ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. Phoenicia
  2. the country of Carthage

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative φοινίκη φοινίκᾱ φοινίκαι
Genitive φοινίκης φοινίκαιν φοινικῶν
Dative φοινίκῃ φοινίκαιν φοινίκαις
Accusative φοινίκην φοινίκᾱ φοινίκᾱς
Vocative φοινίκη φοινίκᾱ φοινίκαι

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)

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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