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συκῆ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: συκῆ

Structure: συκ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: su=kon

Sense

  1. the fig-tree
  2. a fig

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 εἶπαν τὰ ξύλα τῇ συκῇ. δεῦρο βασίλευσον ἐφ̓ ἡμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 9:10)
  • καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖσ ἡ συκῆ. μὴ ἀπολείψασα ἐγὼ τὴν γλυκύτητά μου καὶ τὰ γενήματά μου τὰ ἀγαθά, πορεύσομαι κινεῖσθαι ἐπὶ τῶν ξύλων̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 9:11)
  • ἡ συκῆ ἐξήνεγκεν ὀλύνθουσ αὐτῆσ, αἱ ἄμπελοι κυπρίζουσιν, ἔδωκαν ὀσμήν. ἀνάστα, ἐλθέ, ἡ πλησίον μου, καλή μου, περιστερά μου, καὶ ἐλθέ, (Septuagint, Canticum Canticorum 2:13)
  • Ὡσ σταφυλὴν ἐν ἐρήμῳ εὗρον τὸν Ἰσραὴλ καὶ ὡσ σκοπὸν ἐν συκῇ πρώϊμον πατέρασ αὐτῶν εἶδον. αὐτοὶ εἰσῆλθον πρὸσ τὸν Βεελφεγὼρ καὶ ἀπηλλοτριώθησαν εἰσ αἰσχύνην, καὶ ἐγένοντο οἱ ἐβδελυγμένοι ὡσ οἱ ἠγαπημένοι. (Septuagint, Prophetia Osee 9:10)
  • θαρσεῖτε, κτήνη τοῦ πεδίου, ὅτι βεβλάστηκε τὰ πεδία τῆσ ἐρήμου, ὅτι ξύλον ἤνεγκε τὸν καρπὸν αὐτοῦ, συκῆ καὶ ἄμπελοσ ἔδωκαν τὴν ἰσχὺν αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ioel 2:22)

Synonyms

  1. the fig-tree

  2. a fig

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

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