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συκῆ?

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: sykē

Principal Part: συκῆ

Structure: συκ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: σῦκον

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 ἐφ᾿ 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 ξύλων; (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 9:11)
  • 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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