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μείς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: μείς μηνός

Structure: μει (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. month
  2. crescent moon
  3. ornament in form of crescent moon

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 εἶπεν αὐτῷ Λάβαν. ἐκ τῶν ὀστῶν μου καὶ ἐκ τῆσ σαρκόσ μου εἶ σύ. καὶ ἦν μετ̓ αὐτοῦ μῆνα ἡμερῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 29:14)
  • καὶ εἶπε Μωυσῆσ. ἑξακόσιαι χιλιάδεσ πεζῶν ὁ λαόσ, ἐν οἷσ εἰμι ἐν αὐτοῖσ. καὶ σὺ εἶπασ, κρέα δώσω αὐτοῖσ φαγεῖν, καὶ φάγονται μῆνα ἡμερῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 11:21)
  • ἡ σπονδὴ αὐτῶν τὸ ἥμισυ τοῦ ἲν ἔσται τῷ μόσχῳ τῷ ἑνί, καὶ τὸ τρίτον τοῦ ἲν ἔσται τῷ κριῷ τῷ ἑνί, καὶ τὸ τέταρτον τοῦ ἲν ἔσται τῷ ἀμνῷ τῷ ἑνὶ οἴνου. τοῦτο τὸ ὁλοκαύτωμα μῆνα ἐκ μηνὸσ εἰσ τοὺσ μῆνασ τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 28:14)
  • ΦΥΛΑΞΑΙ τὸν μῆνα τῶν νέων καὶ ποιήσεισ τὸ πάσχα Κυρίῳ τῷ Θεῷ σου, ὅτι ἐν τῷ μηνὶ τῶν νέων ἐξῆλθεσ ἐξ Αἰγύπτου νυκτόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 16:1)
  • ΚΑΙ ἐγενήθη ὡσ μετὰ μῆνα καὶ ἀνέβη Νάασ ὁ Ἀμμανίτησ καὶ παρεμβάλλει ἐπὶ Ἰαβὶσ Γαλαάδ. καὶ εἶπαν πάντεσ οἱ ἄνδρεσ Ἰαβὶσ πρὸσ Νάασ τὸν Ἀμμανίτην. διάθου ἡμῖν διαθήκην, καὶ δουλεύσομέν σοι. (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 11:1)

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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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