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κρεάγρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κρεάγρα

Structure: κρεαγρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: kre/as, a)gre/w

Sense

  1. a flesh-hook

Declension

First 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 ἤρχετο τὸ παιδάριον τοῦ ἱερέωσ, ὡσ ἂν ἡψήθη τὸ κρέασ, καὶ κρεάγρα τριόδουσ ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 2:13)
  • καὶ τῶν κρεαγρῶν καὶ σπονδείων καὶ τῶν φιαλῶν τῶν χρυσῶν καὶ τὸν σταθμὸν τῶν χρυσῶν καὶ ἀργυρῶν, καὶ θυί̈σκων κεφφουρὲ ἑκάστου σταθμοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 28:17)
  • κατασπείροντι δ’ ἄροτρον ἄγκιστρον ναύταισ ὀψοφάγοισ κρεάγρα· (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume IV, book 11, chapter 2035)
  • καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτὴν εἰσ τὸν λέβητα τὸν μέγαν ἢ εἰσ τὸ χαλκεῖον ἢ εἰσ τὴν χύτραν. καὶ πᾶν, ὃ ἐὰν ἀνέβη ἐν τῇ κρεάγρᾳ, ἐλάμβανεν ἑαυτῷ ὁ ἱερεύσ. κατὰ τάδε ἐποίουν παντὶ Ἰσραὴλ τοῖσ ἐρχομένοισ θῦσαι Κυρίῳ ἐν Σηλὼμ. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 2:14)
  • κεἰ μὴ τούτοισι πέποιθασ, ἐπὶ ταυτησὶ κατακνησθείην ἐν μυττωτῷ μετὰ τυροῦ, καὶ τῇ κρεάγρᾳ τῶν ὀρχιπέδων ἑλκοίμην ἐσ Κεραμεικόν. (Aristotle, Agon, Epirrheme4)

Synonyms

  1. a flesh-hook

Related

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

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