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σκαφεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: σκαφεύς σκαφέως

Structure: σκαφευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ska/ptw

Sense

  1. a digger, delver, ditcher

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

  • Ἰοππῖται δὲ τηλικοῦτο συνετέλεσαν τὸ δυσσέβημα. παρακαλέσαντεσ τοὺσ σὺν αὐτοῖσ οἰκοῦντασ Ἰουδαίουσ ἐμβῆναι εἰσ τὰ παρασταθέντα ὑπ̓ αὐτῶν σκάφη σὺν γυναιξὶ καὶ τέκνοισ ὡσ μηδεμιᾶσ ἐνεστώσησ πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ δυσμενείασ, (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 12:3)
  • καὶ ἐπικαλεσάμενοσ τὸν δίκαιον κριτὴν Θεόν, παρεγένετο ἐπὶ τοὺσ μιαιοφόνουσ τῶν ἀδελφῶν. καὶ τὸν μὲν λιμένα νύκτωρ ἐνέπρησε καὶ τὰ σκάφη κατέφλεξε, τοὺσ δὲ ἐκεῖ συμφυγόντασ ἐξεκέντησε. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 12:6)
  • καὶ ἀνήσω τὸν ἀμπελωνά μου καὶ οὐ τμηθῇ οὐδὲ μὴ σκαφῇ, καὶ ἀναβήσονται εἰσ αὐτὸν ὡσ εἰσ χέρσον ἄκανθαι. καὶ ταῖσ νεφέλαισ ἐντελοῦμαι τοῦ μὴ βρέξαι εἰσ αὐτὸν ὑετόν. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 5:6)
  • συγκατασκάψων δ’ ἐγὼ τείχη πάρειμι καὶ νεῶν πρήσων σκάφη. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambics4)
  • οὐδὲν γάρ ἐσμεν πλὴν Ποσειδῶν καὶ σκάφη. (Aristophanes, Lysistrata, Prologue 4:11)

Synonyms

  1. a digger

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

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