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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

  • καὶ ἐξέβαλε τὸν Ἀδὰμ καὶ κατῴκισεν αὐτὸν ἀπέναντι τοῦ παραδείσου τῆσ τρυφῆσ καὶ ἔταξε τὰ Χερουβὶμ καὶ τὴν φλογίνην ρομφαίαν τὴν στρεφομένην φυλάσσειν τὴν ὁδὸν τοῦ ξύλου τῆσ ζωῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 3:24)
  • καὶ εἶπαν αὐτοῖσ. ἴδοι ὁ Θεὸσ ὑμᾶσ καὶ κρίναι, ὅτι ἐβδελύξατε τὴν ὀσμὴν ἡμῶν ἐναντίον Φαραὼ καὶ ἐναντίον τῶν θεραπόντων αὐτοῦ, δοῦναι ρομφαίαν εἰσ τὰσ χεῖρασ αὐτοῦ, ἀποκτεῖναι ἡμᾶσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 5:21)
  • καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖσ. τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ Ἰσραήλ. θέσθε ἕκαστοσ τὴν ἑαυτοῦ ρομφαίαν ἐπὶ τὸν μηρὸν καὶ διέλθατε καὶ ἀνακάμψατε ἀπὸ πύλησ ἐπὶ πύλην διά τῆσ παρεμβολῆσ καὶ ἀποκτείνατε ἕκαστοσ τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἕκαστοσ τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ καὶ ἕκαστοσ τὸ ἔγγιστα αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 32:27)
  • καὶ ἰδοῦσα ἡ ὄνοσ τὸν ἄγγελον τοῦ Θεοῦ ἀνθεστηκότα ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ καὶ τὴν ρομφαίαν ἐσπασμένην ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐξέκλινεν ἡ ὄνοσ ἐκ τῆσ ὁδοῦ καὶ ἐπορεύετο εἰσ τὸ πεδίον. καὶ ἐπάταξε τὴν ὄνον ἐν τῇ ράβδῳ αὐτοῦ τοῦ εὐθῦναι αὐτὴν ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 22:23)
  • καὶ ἐσάλπισαν ἐν ταῖσ τριακοσίαισ κερατίναισ, καὶ ἔθηκε Κύριοσ τὴν ρομφαίαν ἀνδρὸσ ἐν τῷ πλησίον αὐτοῦ ἐν πάσῃ τῇ παρεμβολῇ, (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 7:22)

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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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