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ὦμος

Second declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὦμος ὤμου

Structure: ὠμ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. the shoulder with the upper arm (also of animals, as of a horse)

Declension

Second 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 ἰδὼν τὴν ἀνάπαυσιν ὅτι καλή, καὶ τὴν γῆν ὅτι πίων, ὑπέθηκε τὸν ὦμον αὐτοῦ εἰσ τὸ πονεῖν καὶ ἐγενήθη ἀνὴρ γεωργόσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 49:15)
  • οὐκ ἔδεσθε ἀπ̓ αὐτῶν ὠμὸν οὐδὲ ἡψημένον ἐν ὕδατι, ἀλλ̓ ἢ ὀπτὰ πυρί, κεφαλὴν σὺν τοῖσ ποσὶ καὶ τοῖσ ἐνδοσθίοισ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 12:9)
  • προσκύψασα δὲ αὐτῷ, χλευάσασα τὸν ὠμὸν τύραννον οὕτωσ ἔφησε τῇ πατρῴᾳ φωνῇ. υἱέ, ἐλέησόν με τὴν ἐν γαστρὶ περιενέγκασάν σε μῆνασ ἐννέα καὶ θηλάσασάν σε ἔτη τρία καὶ ἐκθρέψασάν σε καὶ ἀγαγοῦσαν εἰσ τὴν ἡλικίαν ταύτην καὶ τροφοφορήσασαν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 7:27)
  • Δοσίθεοσ δέ τισ τῶν τοῦ Βακήνοροσ, ἔφιπποσ ἀνὴρ καὶ καρτερόσ, εἴχετο τοῦ Γοργίου καὶ λαβόμενοσ τῆσ χλαμύδοσ ἦγεν αὐτὸν εὐρώστωσ καὶ βουλόμενοσ τὸν κατάρατον λαβεῖν ζωγρίαν, τῶν ἱππέων Θρακῶν τινοσ ἐπενεχθέντοσ αὐτῷ καὶ τὸν ὦμον καθελόντοσ διέφυγεν ὁ Γοργίασ εἰσ Μαρισά. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 12:35)
  • ὑπόθεσ τὸν ὦμόν σου καὶ βάσταξον αὐτήν, καὶ μὴ προσοχθίσῃσ τοῖσ δεσμοῖσ αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sirach 6:25)

Synonyms

  1. the shoulder with the upper arm

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