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ὥρᾱ

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ὥρᾱ ὥρας

Structure: ὡρ (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. any defined period of time
  2. season
  3. (in plural): climate
  4. year
  5. time of day
  6. hour
  7. some specific time: right time, time for something
  8. time of life: youth

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 φυλάξασθε τὸν νόμον τοῦτον κατὰ καιροὺσ ὡρῶν, ἀφ̓ ἡμερῶν εἰσ ἡμέρασ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 13:10)
  • καὶ τῷ Ἰωσὴφ εἶπεν. ἀπ̓ εὐλογίασ Κυρίου ἡ γῆ αὐτοῦ, ἀπὸ ὡρῶν οὐρανοῦ καὶ δρόσου καὶ ἀπὸ ἀβύσσων πηγῶν κάτωθεν (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 33:13)
  • προσέτι τῇ ἄλλῃ περινοίᾳ κεκοσμημένον, ἀφόδων μὲν ἀναγκαίων δυσὶν ἀναχωρήσεσιν, ἐξόδοισ δὲ πολλαῖσ τεθυρωμένον, ὡρῶν δὲ διττὰσ δηλώσεισ, τὴν μὲν δι’ ὕδατοσ καὶ μυκήματοσ, τὴν δὲ δι’ ἡλίου ἐπιδεικνύμενον. (Lucian, (no name) 8:4)
  • ἄγε νυν ἡμεῖσ παίσωμεν ἅπερ νόμοσ ἐνθάδε ταῖσι γυναιξίν, ὅταν ὄργια σεμνὰ θεοῖν ἱεραῖσ ὡρ́αισ ἀνέχωμεν, ἅπερ καὶ Παύσων σέβεται καὶ νηστεύει, πολλάκισ αὐτοῖν ἐκ τῶν ὡρῶν ἐσ τὰσ ὡρ́ασ ξυνεπευχόμενοσ τοιαῦτα μέλειν θάμ’ ἑαυτῷ. (Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae, Lyric-Scene, anapests1)
  • καὶ διὰ τοῦτο ἱδρύσασθαι βωμὸν ὀρθοῦ Διονύσου ἐν τῷ τῶν ̔ Ὡρῶν ἱερῷ αὗται γάρ καὶ τὸν τῆσ ἀμπέλου καρπὸν ἐκτρέφουσι. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 2, book 2, chapter 73)
  • καὶ εἶπεν Ἰακώβ. ἔτι ἐστὶν ἡμέρα πολλή, οὔπω ὥρα συναχθῆναι τὰ κτήνη. ποτίσαντεσ τὰ πρόβατα ἀπελθόντεσ βόσκετε. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 29:7)
  • καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῇ Βοόζ. ἤδη ὥρα τοῦ φαγεῖν, πρόσελθε ὧδε καὶ φάγεσαι τῶν ἄρτων καὶ βάψεισ τὸν ψωμόν σου ἐν τῷ ὄξει. καὶ ἐκάθισε Ροὺθ ἐκ πλαγίων τῶν θεριζόντων, καὶ ἐβούνισεν αὐτῇ Βοὸζ ἄλφιτον, καὶ ἔφαγε καὶ ἐνεπλήσθη καὶ κατέλιπε. (Septuagint, Liber Ruth 2:14)
  • καὶ εἶπεν Ἑλισαιὲ πρὸσ αὐτήν. εἰσ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον, ὡσ ἡ ὥρα, ζῶσα σὺ περιειληφυῖα υἱόν. ἡ δὲ εἶπε. μὴ Κύριε, μὴ διαψεύσῃ τὴν δούλην σου. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 4:16)
  • καὶ ἐν γαστρὶ ἔλαβεν ἡ γυνὴ καὶ ἔτεκεν υἱὸν εἰσ τὸν καιρὸν τοῦτον, ὡσ ἡ ὥρα, ζῶσα, ὡσ ἐλάλησε πρὸσ αὐτὴν Ἑλισαιέ. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 4:17)
  • ΚΑΙ εἶπεν Ἑλισαιέ. ἄκουσον λόγον Κυρίου. τάδε λέγει Κύριοσ. ὡσ ἡ ὥρα αὕτη αὔριον μέτρον σεμιδάλεωσ σίκλου καὶ δίμετρον κριθῶν σίκλου ἐν ταῖσ πύλαισ Σαμαρείασ. (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. any defined period of time

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