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ὄμφαξ?

Third declension Noun; Transliteration: omphax

Principal Part: ὄμφαξ ὄμφακος

Structure: ὀμφακ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. an unripe grape

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

  • ὥσπερ ὄμφαξ ὀδοῦσι βλαβερὸν καὶ καπνὸς ὄμμασιν, οὕτως παρανομία τοῖς χρωμένοις αὐτῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Proverbiorum 10:27)
  • πρὸ τοῦ θερισμοῦ, ὅταν συντελεσθῇ ἄνθος καὶ ὄμφαξ ἐξανθήσῃ ἄνθος ὀμφακίζουσα, καὶ ἀφελεῖ τὰ βοτρύδια τὰ μικρὰ τοῖς δρεπάνοις καὶ τὰς κληματίδας ἀφελεῖ καὶ ἀποκόψει (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 18:5)
  • εἰή μήτ ὄμφαξ, μήτ ἀσταφίς: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 203)
  • Ὄμφαξ οὐκ ἐπένευσας: (Unknown, Greek Anthology, book 5, chapter 3041)

Synonyms

  1. an unripe grape

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

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