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ὑδρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὑδρία

Structure: ὑδρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: u(/dwr

Sense

  1. a water-pot, pitcher, urn
  2. a vessel, a pot of money
  3. the balloting urn
  4. a cinerary urn

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

  • ὅτι τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ. ἡ ὑδρία τοῦ ἀλεύρου οὐκ ἐκλείψει καὶ ὁ καψάκησ τοῦ ἐλαίου οὐκ ἐλαττονήσει ἕωσ ἡμέρασ τοῦ δοῦναι Κύριον τὸν ὑετὸν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 17:14)
  • καὶ ἡ ὑδρία τοῦ ἀλεύρου οὐκ ἐξέλιπε καὶ ὁ καψάκησ τοῦ ἐλαίου οὐκ ἠλαττονήθη κατὰ τὸ ρῆμα Κυρίου, ὃ ἐλάλησεν ἐν χειρὶ Ἠλιού. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 17:16)
  • ἕωσ ὅτου μὴ ἀνατραπῇ τὸ σχοινίον τοῦ ἀργυρίου, καὶ συντριβῇ τὸ ἀνθέμιον τοῦ χρυσίου, καὶ συντριβῇ ὑδρία ἐπὶ τῇ πηγῇ, καὶ συντροχάσῃ ὁ τροχὸσ ἐπὶ τὸν λάκκον, (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 12:6)
  • τελευτήσαντοσ δ’ αὐτοῦ καὶ κατακαυθέντοσ οὐκ ἐχώρησε μία ὑδρία τὰ ὀστέα, μόλισ δὲ δύο. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 10, book 10, chapter 4 4:2)
  • ὅτι δ’ ὑδρία τε ἡ χαλκῆ, τὸ εὑρ́ημα τοῦ Ἀργείου στρατηγοῦ, καὶ Εὐρύτου τοῦ Μελανέωσ τὰ ὀστᾶ ἐφυλάσσετο ἐνταῦθα, δηλῶσαί με καὶ ἐσ ἅπαντασ οὐκ ἀπεῖργε τὸ ὄνειρον. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 33 9:3)
  • καὶ εἶπεν ἡ γυνή. ζῇ Κύριοσ ὁ Θεόσ σου, εἰ ἔστι μοι ἐγκρυφίασ ἀλλ̓ ἢ ὅσον δρὰξ ἀλεύρου ἐν τῇ ὑδρίᾳ καὶ ὀλίγον ἔλαιον ἐν τῷ καψάκῃ. καὶ ἰδοὺ ἐγὼ συλλέξω δύο ξυλάρια καὶ εἰσελεύσομαι καὶ ποιήσω αὐτὸ ἐμαυτῇ καὶ τοῖσ τέκνοισ μου, καὶ φαγόμεθα καὶ ἀποθανούμεθα. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 17:12)
  • Μένανδροσ Ὑδρίᾳ· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 9, book 9, chapter 75 3:6)

Synonyms

  1. the balloting urn

  2. a cinerary urn

Related

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

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