Ancient Greek-English Dictionary Language

τεφρός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: τεφρός τεφρή τεφρόν

Structure: τεφρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Etym.: from te/fra

Sense

  1. ash-coloured

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)

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

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