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σφῦρα

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: σφῦρα

Structure: σφυρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. a hammer
  2. a beetle, mallet

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 ὁ οἶκοσ ἐν τῷ οἰκοδομεῖσθαι αὐτὸν λίθοισ ἀκροτόμοισ ἀργοῖσ ᾠκοδομήθη, καὶ σφῦρα καὶ πέλεκυσ καὶ πᾶν σκεῦοσ σιδηροῦν οὐκ ἠκούσθη ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ ἐν τῷ οἰκοδομεῖσθαι αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 6:11)
  • πῶσ ἐκλάσθη καὶ συνετρίβη ἡ σφῦρα πάσησ τῆσ γῆσ̣ πῶσ ἐγενήθη εἰσ ἀφανισμὸν Βαβυλὼν ἐν ἔθνεσιν̣ (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 27:23)
  • νὴ Δί’ ἡ γὰρ σφῦρα λαμπρὸν ἦν ἄρ’ ἐξωπλισμένη, αἵ τε θρίνακεσ διαστίλβουσι πρὸσ τὸν ἥλιον. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, trochees7)
  • ὅμωσ δ’ ἐάν τι πολλὰ πολλάκισ πάθω ὑπὸ τοῖνδε τοῖν κασαλβάδοιν δεῦρ’ ἐσπλέων, θάψαι μ’ ἐπ’ αὐτῷ τῷ στόματι τῆσ ἐσβολῆσ, καὶ τήνδ’ ἄνωθεν ἐπιπολῆσ τοῦ σήματοσ ζῶσαν καταπιττώσαντεσ εἶτα τὼ πόδε μολυβδοχοήσαντεσ κύκλῳ περὶ τὰ σφυρὰ ἄνω ’πιθεῖναι πρόφασιν ἀντὶ ληκύθου. (Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 2 4:29)
  • ὡσ δὲ προσιόντα ᾔσθοντο τὸν Λαμπρίαν καὶ ἐκορέσθησάν ποτε φιλοῦντεσ ἀλλήλουσ, ἐγὼ μὲν ὅμωσ παῤ αὐτὸν κατεκλίθην, ὡσ μὴ καὶ τοῦτο προφασίζοιτο ὕστερον, ἡ Θαῒσ δὲ ἀναστᾶσα ὠρχήσατο πρώτη ἀπογυμνοῦσα ἐπὶ πολὺ τὰ σφυρὰ ὡσ μόνη καλὰ ἔχουσα, καὶ ἐπειδὴ ἐπαύσατο, ὁ Λαμπρίασ μὲν ἐσίγα καὶ εἶπεν οὐδέν, Δίφιλοσ δὲ ὑπερεπῄνει τὸ εὔρυθμον καὶ τὸ κεχορηγημένον, καὶ ὅτι εὖ πρὸσ τὴν κιθάραν ὁ ποὺσ καὶ τὸ σφυρὸν ὡσ καλὸν καὶ ἄλλα μυρία, καθάπερ τὴν Καλάμιδοσ Σωσάνδραν ἐπαινῶν, ἀλλ̓ οὐχὶ Θαΐδα, ἣν καὶ σὺ οἶσθα συλλουομένην ἡμῖν οἱά ἐστί, Θαῒσ δὲ οἱᾶ καὶ ἔσκωψεν εὐθὺσ ἐσ ἐμέ· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 2:4)

Synonyms

  1. a hammer

  2. a beetle

Related

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

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