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λυχνίον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: λυχνίον λυχνίου

Structure: λυχνι (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: lu/xnos

Sense

  1. a lamp-stand

Declension

Second 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

  • λυχνιῶν τὴν ὁλκὴν ἔδωκεν αὐτῷ καὶ τῶν λύχνων. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 28:15)
  • καὶ ἐν μέσῳ τῶν λυχνιῶν ὅμοιον υἱὸν ἀνθρώπου, ἐνδεδυμένον ποδήρη καὶ περιεζωσμένον πρὸσ τοῖσ μαστοῖσ ζώνην χρυσᾶν· (APOKALUYIS IWANOU, chapter 1 17:1)

Synonyms

  1. a lamp-stand

Related

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

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