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τέφρᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: τέφρᾱ τέφρας

Structure: τεφρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. ashes, as of the funeral pire.

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 ἐὰν εἰσέλθῃσ εἰσ τὸν νυμφῶνα, λήψῃ τέφραν θυμιαμάτων καὶ ἐπιθήσεισ ἀπὸ τῆσ καρδίασ καὶ τοῦ ἥπατοσ τοῦ ἰχθύοσ καὶ καπνίσεισ, (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 6:17)
  • ὁ δὲ πορευόμενοσ ἐμνήσθη τῶν λόγων Ραφαὴλ καὶ ἔλαβε τὴν τέφραν τῶν θυμιαμάτων καὶ ἐπέθηκε τὴν καρδίαν τοῦ ἰχθύοσ καὶ τὸ ἧπαρ καὶ ἐκάπνισεν. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 8:2)
  • καὶ ἐπέταξε Δανιὴλ τοῖσ παιδαρίοισ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἤνεγκαν τέφραν καὶ κατέστρωσαν ὅλον τὸν ναὸν ἐνώπιον τοῦ βασιλέωσ μόνου. καὶ ἐξελθόντεσ ἔκλεισαν τὴν θύραν καὶ ἐσφραγίσαντο ἐν τῷ δακτυλίῳ τοῦ βασιλέωσ, καὶ ἀπῆλθον. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 12:26)
  • εἰ δὲ μή, ἡμεῖσ αὐταί τε καὶ τὰ δουλάρια τέφραν ποθὲν λαβοῦσαι ταύτησ ἀποψιλώσομεν τὸν χοῖρον, ἵνα διδαχθῇ γυνὴ γυναῖκασ οὖσα μὴ κακῶσ λέγειν τὸ λοιπόν. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, epirrheme3)
  • κατὰ τῆσ τραπέζησ καταπάσασ λεπτὴν τέφραν κάμψασ ὀβελίσκον εἶτα διαβήτην λαβὼν ἐκ τῆσ παλαίστρασ θοἰμάτιον ὑφείλετο. (Aristophanes, Clouds, Prologue 5:39)

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