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σάλπιγξ

Third declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: σάλπιγξ σάλπιγγος

Structure: σαλπιγγ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from salpi/zw

Sense

  1. a war-trumpet, trump
  2. a trumpet-call

Declension

Third 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 ὀργῇ ἀφανιεῖ τὴν γῆν καὶ οὐ μὴ πιστεύσει, ἕωσ ἂν σημάνῃ σάλπιγξ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 39:24)
  • γυνὴ μεγαλόφωνοσ καὶ γλωσσώδησ ὡσ σάλπιγξ πολέμων εἰσ τροπὴν θεωρηθήσεται, ἀνθρώπου δὲ παντὸσ ψυχὴ ὁμοιότροποσ τούτοισ, πολέμου ἀκαταστασίαισ τὴν ψυχὴν διαιτηθήσεται]. ‐ (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 26:27)
  • εἰ φωνήσει σάλπιγξ ἐν πόλει, καὶ λαὸσ οὐ πτοηθήσεται̣ εἰ ἔσται κακία ἐν πόλει, ἣν Κύριοσ οὐκ ἐποίησε̣ (Septuagint, Prophetia Amos 3:6)
  • τοῦτό τε οὖν φυλακτέον τῷ λέγοντι, καὶ προσέτι μὴ καὶ τὴν φωνὴν αὐτὴν ἐπιταράττηται ^ ἐν οὕτωσ εὐφώνῳ καὶ ἠχήεντι οἴκῳ λέγων ἀντιφθέγγεται γὰρ καὶ ἀντιφωνεῖ καὶ ἀντιλέγει, μᾶλλον δὲ ἐπικαλύπτει τὴν βοήν, οἱο͂́ν τι καὶ σάλπιγξ δρᾷ τὸν αὐλόν, εἰ συναυλοῖεν, ἢ τοὺσ κελευστὰσ ἡ θάλαττα, ὁπόταν πρὸσ κύματοσ ἦχον ἐπᾴδειν τῇ εἰρεσίᾳ θέλωσιν ἐπικρατεῖ γὰρ ἡ μεγαλοφωνία καὶ κατασιωπᾷ τὸ ἧττον. (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 16:3)
  • κλάζει βρίθουσα σάλπιγξ Ἄρει κρέκουσα θούρῳ πολεμηίαν ἀϋτήν. (Lucian, 8)

Synonyms

  1. a trumpet-call

Related

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

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