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ὁπλοθήκη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὁπλοθήκη

Structure: ὁπλοθηκ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. an armoury

Declension

First 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

  • ἔνθα τὴν Ἡρώδου τοῦ βασιλέωσ ὁπλοθήκην ἀναρρήξασ καὶ πρὸσ τοῖσ δημόταισ ἑτέρουσ λῃστὰσ καθοπλίσασ τούτοισ τε χρώμενοσ δορυφόροισ, οἱᾶ δὴ βασιλεὺσ ἐπάνεισιν εἰσ Ιἑροσόλυμα καὶ γενόμενοσ ἡγεμὼν τῆσ στάσεωσ διέτασσεν τὴν πολιορκίαν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 552:1)
  • ὁ δὲ τὸν μὲν Κεβαλῖνον εἰσ τὴν ὁπλοθήκην εἰσαγαγὼν ἀπέκρυψεν, αὐτὸσ δὲ τῷ βασιλεῖ μεταξὺ λουομένῳ προσελθὼν ἀπήγγειλε τὰ ῥηθέντα καὶ διότι τὸν Κεβαλῖνον παρ’ ἑαυτῷ φυλάττει. (Diodorus Siculus, Library, book xvii, chapter 79 6:1)
  • ἀνοίξασ δὲ Ιὤδασ τὴν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ ὁπλοθήκην, ἣν Δαυίδησ κατεσκεύασε, διεμέρισε τοῖσ ἑκατοντάρχαισ ἅμα καὶ ἱερεῦσι καὶ Ληουίταισ ἅπανθ’ ὅσ’ εὑρ͂εν ἐν αὐτῇ δόρατά τε καὶ φαρέτρασ καὶ εἴ τι ἕτερον εἶδοσ ὅπλου κατέλαβε, καὶ καθωπλισμένουσ ἔστησεν ἐν κύκλῳ περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν συναψαμένουσ τὴν χεῖρα καὶ τὴν εἴσοδον τοῖσ οὐ προσήκουσιν οὕτωσ ἀποτειχίσοντασ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 9 180:3)

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

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