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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

  • ποίησον σεαυτῷ δύο σάλπιγγασ ἀργυρᾶσ, ἐλατὰσ ποιήσεισ αὐτάσ, καὶ ἔσονταί σοι ἀνακαλεῖν τὴν συναγωγὴν καὶ ἐξαίρειν τὰσ παρεμβολάσ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 10:2)
  • καὶ ἑπτὰ ἱερεῖσ ἔχοντεσ ἑπτὰ σάλπιγγασ ἱερὰσ παρελθέτωσαν ὡσαύτωσ ἐναντίον τοῦ Κυρίου καὶ σημαινέτωσαν εὐτόνωσ, καὶ ἡ κιβωτὸσ τῆσ διαθήκησ Κυρίου ἐπακολουθείτω. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 6:8)
  • καὶ οἱ ἑπτὰ ἱερεῖσ οἱ φέροντεσ τὰσ σάλπιγγασ τὰσ ἑπτὰ προεπορεύοντο ἐναντίον Κυρίου, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα εἰσεπορεύοντο οἱ μάχιμοι καὶ ὁ λοιπὸσ ὄχλοσ ὄπισθεν τῆσ κιβωτοῦ τῆσ διαθήκησ Κυρίου. καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖσ ἐσάλπισαν ταῖσ σάλπιγξι, καὶ ὁ λοιπὸσ ὄχλοσ ἅπασ περιεκύκλωσε τὴν πόλιν ἑξάκισ ἐγγύθεν (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 6:13)
  • ὡσ δὲ ἐπέλαζον ἤδη τοῖσι θηρίοισιν, ἐνθαῦτα αὐτοὺσ μὲν ὅσον αἱ κεφαλαὶ αὐτοῖσιν ἐχώρεον ἐπαλαλάξαι, τὰσ δὲ σάλπιγγασ σημῆναι, καὶ τὸν κτύπον τὸν ἀπὸ τῆσ εἰρεσίησ ὡσ ἐπὶ μήκιστον κατασχεῖν. (Arrian, Indica, chapter 30 5:1)
  • τὰ μὲν οὖν χρήματα διήρπασαν οἱ Μαρίου στρατιῶται, τὰ δὲ λάφυρα καὶ τὰσ σημαίασ καὶ τὰσ σάλπιγγασ εἰσ τὸ Κάτλου στρατόπεδον ἀνενεχθῆναι λέγουσιν· (Plutarch, Caius Marius, chapter 27 4:1)

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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