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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 ἀνεθεμάτισεν αὐτὴν Ἰησοῦσ καὶ ὅσα ἦν ἐν τῇ πόλει ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸσ καὶ ἕωσ γυναικόσ, ἀπὸ νεανίσκου καὶ ἕωσ πρεσβύτου καὶ ἕωσ μόσχου καὶ ὑποζυγίου, ἐν στόματι ρομφαίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 6:21)
  • καὶ ὡσ ἐπαύσαντο οἱ υἱοὶ Ἰσραὴλ ἀποκτείνοντεσ πάντασ τοὺσ ἐν τῇ Γαί, τοὺσ ἐν τοῖσ πεδίοισ καὶ ἐν τῷ ὄρει ἐπὶ τῆσ καταβάσεωσ, οὗ κατεδίωξαν αὐτοὺσ ἀπ’ αὐτῆσ εἰσ τέλοσ, καὶ ἐπέστρεψεν Ἰησοῦσ εἰσ Γαὶ καὶ ἐπάταξεν αὐτὴν ἐν στόματι ρομφαίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 8:23)
  • Καὶ ἐπολέμουν υἱοὶ Ἰούδα τὴν Ἱερουσαλὴμ κα’Ι κατελάβοντο αὐτὴν καὶ ἐπάταξαν αὐτὴν ἐν στόματι ρομφαίασ καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἐνέπρησαν ἐν πυρί. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 1:8)
  • καὶ ἔδειξεν αὐτοῖσ τὴν εἴσοδον τῆσ πόλεωσ, καὶ ἐπάταξαν τὴν πόλιν ἐν στόματι ρομφαίασ, τὸν δὲ ἄνδρα καὶ τὴν συγγένειαν αὐτοῦ ἐξαπέστειλαν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 1:25)
  • καὶ ἐξέστησε Κύριοσ τὸν Σισάρα καὶ πάντα τὰ ἅρματα αὐτοῦ καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν παρεμβολὴν αὐτοῦ ἐν στόματι ρομφαίασ ἐνώπιον Βαράκ. καὶ κατέβη Σισάρα ἐπάνωθεν τοῦ ἅρματοσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἔφυγε τοῖσ ποσὶν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 4:15)

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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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