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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)
  • 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)
  • καὶ σοῦ αὐτῆσ τὴν ψυχὴν διελεύσεται ῥομφαία, ὅπωσ ἂν ἀποκαλυφθῶσιν ἐκ πολλῶν καρδιῶν διαλογισμοί. (, chapter 1 107:1)
  • καὶ τοὺσ βασιλεῖσ Μαδιὰν ἀπέκτειναν ἅμα τοῖσ τραυματίαισ αὐτῶν, καὶ τὸν Εὐὶν καὶ τὸν Ροκὸν καὶ τὸν Σοὺρ καὶ τὸν Οὒρ καὶ τὸν Ροβόκ, πέντε βασιλεῖσ Μαδιάν. καὶ τὸν Βαλαὰμ υἱὸν Βεὼρ ἀπέκτειναν ἐν ρομφαίᾳ σὺν τοῖσ τραυματίαισ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 31:8)
  • Καὶ ἐγένετο ὡσ ἦν Ἰησοῦσ ἐν Ἱεριχώ, καὶ ἀναβλέψασ τοῖσ ὀφθαλμοῖσ εἶδεν ἄνθρωπον ἑστηκότα ἐναντίον αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἡ ρομφαία ἐσπασμένη ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτοῦ. καὶ προσελθὼν Ἰησοῦσ εἶπεν αὐτῷ. ἡμέτεροσ εἶ ἢ τῶν ὑπεναντίων̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 5:13)
  • καὶ ἐξαπέστειλε προτέραν ὑμῶν τὴν σφηκιάν, καὶ ἐξαπέστειλεν αὐτοὺσ ἀπὸ προσώπου ὑμῶν, δώδεκα βασιλεῖσ τῶν Ἀμορραίων, οὐκ ἐν τῇ ρομφαίᾳ σου οὐδὲ ἐν τῷ τόξῳ σου. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 24:12)
  • καὶ ἀπεκρίθη ὁ πλησίον αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶπεν. οὐκ ἔστιν αὕτη εἰ μὴ ρομφαία Γεδεὼν υἱοῦ Ἰωὰσ ἀνδρὸσ Ἰσραήλ. παρέδωκεν ὁ Θεὸσ ἐν χειρὶ αὐτοῦ τὴν Μαδιὰμ καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν παρεμβολήν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 7:14)
  • καὶ ἐσάλπισαν αἱ τρεῖσ ἀρχαὶ ἐν ταῖσ κερατίναισ καὶ συνέτριψαν τὰσ ὑδρίασ καὶ ἐκράτησαν ἐν χερσὶν ἀριστεραῖσ αὐτῶν τὰσ λαμπάδασ καὶ ἐν χερσὶ δεξιαῖσ αὐτῶν τὰσ κερατίνασ τοῦ σαλπίζειν καὶ ἀνέκραξαν. ρομφαία τῷ Κυρίῳ καὶ τῷ Γεδεών. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 7:20)

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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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