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ῥομφαία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥομφαία

Structure: ῥομφαι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: Foreign word.

Sense

  1. a large sword, scymitar

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

  • τοῦ ἐχθροῦ ἐξέλιπον αἱ ῥομφαῖαι εἰσ τέλοσ, καὶ πόλεισ καθεῖλεσ. ἀπώλετο τὸ μνημόσυνον αὐτοῦ μετ̓ ἤχου, (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 9:7)
  • αἱ ὑψώσεισ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν τῷ λάρυγγι αὐτῶν, καὶ ῥομφαῖαι δίστομοι ἐν ταῖσ χερσὶν αὐτῶν (Septuagint, Liber Psalmorum 149:6)

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

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