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ῥαφεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥαφεύς ῥαφέως

Structure: ῥαφευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: r(a/ptw

Sense

  1. a stitcher, patcher, a planner

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 Ραφὴ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ, Σαρὰφ καὶ Θαλεὲσ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ, Θαὲν υἱὸσ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 7:25)
  • Νωὰ τὸν τέταρτον καὶ Ραφὴ τὸν πέμπτον. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 8:2)
  • Ῥαφὴ δὲ ἐν ἕλκει φανεῖσα, ὀστέου ψιλωθέντοσ, πανταχοῦ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ τοῦ ἕλκεοσ γενομένου, ἀσθενέστατον γίγνεται τῇ τρώσει καὶ τῷ βέλει ἀντέχειν, εἰ τύχοι τὸ βέλοσ ἐσ αὐτὴν τὴν Ῥαφὴν στηριχθέν‧ πάντων δὲ μάλιστα ἐν τῷ βρέγματι γενόμενον κατὰ τὸ ἀσθενέστατον τῆσ κεφαλῆσ, καὶ αἱ Ῥαφαὶ εἰ τύχοιεν ἐοῦσαι περὶ τὸ ἕλκοσ, καὶ τὸ βέλοσ αὐτέων τύχοι τῶν Ῥαφῶν. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 3.2)
  • Ξυγκλέπτεται γὰρ αὐτὴ ἡ Ῥαφὴ τρηχυτέρη ἐοῦσα τοῦ ἄλλου ὀστέου, καὶ οὐ διάδηλον ὅ τι τε αὐτοῦ Ῥαφή ἐιν, καὶ ὅ τι τοῦ βέλεοσ ἕδρη, ἢν μὴ κάρτα μεγάλη γένηται ἡ ἕδρη. (Hippocrates, Oeuvres Completes D'Hippocrate., , 12.2)

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

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