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νυμφών

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: νυμφών νυμφῶνος

Structure: νυμφων (Stem)

Etym.: nu/mfh

Sense

  1. the bridechamber

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 ἐὰν εἰσέλθῃσ εἰσ τὸν νυμφῶνα, λήψῃ τέφραν θυμιαμάτων καὶ ἐπιθήσεισ ἀπὸ τῆσ καρδίασ καὶ τοῦ ἥπατοσ τοῦ ἰχθύοσ καὶ καπνίσεισ, (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 6:17)
  • ἐνταῦθα ἐφ’ αὑτῶν οἱ ἄνδρεσ ἑορτὴν ἄγουσι, τὸν δὲ Νυμφῶνα καλούμενον ταῖσ γυναιξὶν ἑορτάζειν παρείκασι· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 11 6:2)

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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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