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ὀρτυγομήτρα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὀρτυγομήτρα

Structure: ὀρτυγομητρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a bird which migrates with the quails, the land-rail, the Ortygian mother

Examples

  • καὶ πνεῦμα ἐξῆλθε παρὰ Κυρίου καὶ ἐξεπέρασεν ὀρτυγομήτραν ἀπὸ τῆσ θαλάσσησ καὶ ἐπέβαλεν ἐπὶ τὴν παρεμβολὴν ὁδὸν ἡμέρασ ἐντεῦθεν καὶ ὁδὸν ἡμέρασ ἐντεῦθεν, κὐκλῳ τῆσ παρεμβολῆσ, ὡσεὶ δίπηχυ ἀπὸ τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 11:31)
  • καὶ ἀναστὰσ ὁ λαὸσ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν καὶ ὅλην τὴν νύκτα καὶ ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν τὴν ἐπαύριον καὶ συνήγαγον τὴν ὀρτυγομήτραν, ὁ τὸ ὀλίγον, συνήγαγε δέκα κόρουσ, καὶ ἔψυξαν ἑαυτοῖσ ψυγμοὺσ κύκλῳ τῆσ παρεμβολῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 11:32)
  • ἀνθ̓ ἧσ κολάσεωσ εὐεργετήσασ τὸν λαόν σου, εἰσ ἐπιθυμίαν ὀρέξεωσ ξένην γεῦσιν, τροφὴν ἡτοίμασασ ὀρτυγομήτραν, (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 16:2)

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

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