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ἱερή

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἱερή

Structure: ἱερ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: = i(e/reia, Anth.

Sense

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ἱερή ἱερᾱ́ ἱεραί
Genitive ἱερᾶς ἱεραῖν ἱερῶν
Dative ἱερᾷ ἱεραῖν ἱεραῖς
Accusative ἱερᾱ́ν ἱερᾱ́ ἱερᾱ́ς
Vocative ἱερᾱ́ ἱερᾱ́ ἱεραί

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 ἑπτὰ ἱερεῖσ ἔχοντεσ ἑπτὰ σάλπιγγασ ἱερὰσ παρελθέτωσαν ὡσαύτωσ ἐναντίον τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ σημαινέτωσαν εὐτόνωσ, καὶ ἡ κιβωτὸσ τῆσ διαθήκησ Κυρίου ἐπακολουθείτω. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 6:8)
  • ὦ ἱερᾶσ καὶ εὐαρμόστου περὶ τῆσ εὐσεβείασ τῶν ἑπτὰ ἀδελφῶν συμφωνίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 14:3)
  • καὶ μὴν ἐκεῖνά γε οὐδείσ ἐστιν ὅστισ οὐκ ἐπίσταται, ὅτι οἱ μὲν τὰσ λοιπὰσ τέχνασ ἐργαζόμενοι τὸν μὲν ἄλλον χρόνον ταλαιπωροῦσι, μίαν δὲ ἢ δύο μόνασ τοῦ μηνὸσ ἡμέρασ ἱερὰσ ἄγουσι,^ καὶ εὐφραίνεσθαι λέγονται τότε· (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 15:1)
  • ὁ δὲ παράσιτοσ τοῦ μηνὸσ τὰσ τριάκονθ’ ἡμέρασ ἱερὰσ ἄγει· (Lucian, De parasito sive artem esse parasiticam, (no name) 15:2)
  • ὦ νὺξ ἱερὰ ὡσ μακρὸν ἵππευμα διώκεισ ἀστεροειδέα νῶτα διφρεύουσ’ αἰθέροσ ἱερᾶσ τοῦ σεμνοτάτου δι’ Ὀλύμπου; (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, lyric1)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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