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ῥομφαία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ῥομφαία

Structure: ῥομφαι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: Foreign word.

Sense

a large sword, scymitar

Declension

First declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	ῥομφαία	ῥομφαίᾱ	ῥομφαῖαι
Genitive	ῥομφαίᾱς	ῥομφαίαιν	ῥομφαιῶν
Dative	ῥομφαίᾱͅ	ῥομφαίαιν	ῥομφαίαις
Accusative	ῥομφαίᾱν	ῥομφαίᾱ	ῥομφαίᾱς
Vocative	ῥομφαίᾱ	ῥομφαίᾱ	ῥομφαῖαι

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 τῶν μὲν ἀπὸ τῆσ Ἀντωνίασ Ῥωμαίων ἤρθη βοὴ περὶ τἀνδρὶ δεισάντων, οἱ δὲ Ιοὐδαῖοι περιστάντεσ αὐτὸν ἀθρόοι τοῖσ τε ξυστοῖσ καὶ ταῖσ ῥομφαίαισ πάντοθεν ἔπαιον. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 95:1)
πολλοὺσ δὲ τῶν κλιμάκων ἀποβαίνοντασ πρὶν φράξασθαι τοῖσ θυρεοῖσ παίοντεσ ταῖσ ῥομφαίαισ ἔφθανον, ἐνίασ δὲ γεμούσασ ὁπλιτῶν κλίμακασ παρακλίνοντεσ ἄνωθεν κατέσειον· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 252:1)
προελθόντεσ τοίνυν εἰσ τὸ μεταξὺ τῶν παρατάξεων οἱ πρὸσ τὴν μάχην ὑφ’ ἑκατέρων τῶν στρατηγῶν ἐξειλεγμένοι καὶ τὰσ αἰχμὰσ ἐπ’ ἀλλήλουσ ἀφέντεσ σπῶνται τὰσ μαχαίρασ καὶ τῶν κεφαλῶν ἐλλαμβανόμενοι κατέχοντεσ αὑτοὺσ ἔπαιον εἰσ τὰσ πλευρὰσ καὶ τὰσ λαγόνασ ἀλλήλουσ ταῖσ ῥομφαίαισ, ἑώσ οὗ πάντεσ ὥσπερ ἐκ συνθήματοσ ἀπώλοντο. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 7 16:2)
καὶ αἱ λοιπαὶ φυλαὶ ῥομφαίαισ ἐχρῶντο. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 7 69:4)

ἐπάνωθεν (from above)
ἐλεγμός ()
παραλυτικός (paralyzed)
σκάνδαλον (trap)
παροικία (a sojourning)
παγίς (a trap)
ἐκχέω (I pour out)
περικεφαλαία (a covering for the head)
γέεννα (Gehenna)
ὑποπόδιον (a footstool)
ἀνάμεσος (in the midland or interior)
μάννα (manna)
μάχαιρα (large knife)
σταυρός (upright stake or pile)
ἁμαρτωλός (sinner)
κυκλόθεν (from all around)
στερέωμα (foundation)
ἐκλεκτός (picked out)
φαρέτρα (a quiver)
ἐφάπαξ (once for all)
κατέναντι (Alternative spelling of κατεναντίον ‎)
σκήνωμα (quarters)
λογεῖον (a place for speaking)
ὀπτασία (a vision)
πρόσκομμα (a stumble)
γαυρίαμα (arrogance)
εὐδοκία (good will)
ἐνώπιος (face to face)
ἐνώπιον (face to face)
περιβόλαιον (that which is thrown round)

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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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