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ὄμφαξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὄμφαξ ὄμφακος

Structure: ὀμφακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. an unripe grape

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ὄμφαξ ό̓μφακε ό̓μφακες
Genitive ό̓μφακος ὀμφάκοιν ὀμφάκων
Dative ό̓μφακι ὀμφάκοιν ό̓μφαξιν*
Accusative ό̓μφακα ό̓μφακε ό̓μφακας
Vocative ό̓μφαξ ό̓μφακε ό̓μφακες

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

  • ἐν ταῖσ ἡμέραισ ἐκείναισ οὐ μὴ εἴπωσιν. οἱ πατέρεσ ἔφαγον ὄμφακα, καὶ οἱ ὀδόντεσ τῶν τέκνων ᾑμωδίασαν. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 38:29)
  • ἀλλ’ ἢ ἕκαστοσ ἐν τῇ ἑαυτοῦ ἁμαρτίᾳ ἀποθανεῖται, καὶ τοῦ φαγόντοσ τὸν ὄμφακα αἱμωδιάσουσιν οἱ ὀδόντεσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 38:30)
  • υἱὲ ἀνθρώπου, τί ὑμῖν ἡ παραβολὴ αὕτη ἐν τοῖσ υἱοῖσ Ἰσραὴλ λέγοντεσ. οἱ πατέρεσ ἔφαγον ὄμφακα καὶ οἱ ὀδόντεσ τῶν τέκνων ἐγομφίασαν̣ (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 18:2)
  • οἱ δὲ τὰσ πρώτασ τῶν παρθένων διαφορὰσ μὴ ὑπομείναντεσ οὐδὲν ἀπολείπουσι τῶν διὰ τὸν ὄμφακα τὴν σταφυλὴν ἑτέροισ προϊεμένων. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 2 2:1)
  • "σχεδὸν ἡμεῖσ ἔτεσι τοσούτοισ γυναικὶ πρεσβυτέρᾳ, καθαπερεὶ φοίνικασ ἢ σῦκ̓ ἐρινεοῖσ, ὄμφακα καὶ ἀώρον ἄνδρα περιάψωμεν. (Plutarch, Amatorius, section 83)

Synonyms

  1. an unripe grape

Similar forms

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

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