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χαλκεία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χαλκεία

Structure: χαλκει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. smith's work

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 ἐκράτησαν αὐτὸν οἱ ἀλλόφυλοι καὶ ἐξέκοψαν τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ αὐτοῦ. καὶ κατήνεγκαν αὐτὸν εἰσ Γάζαν καὶ ἐπέδησαν αὐτὸν ἐν πέδαισ χαλκείαισ, καὶ ἦν ἀλήθων ἐν οἴκῳ τοῦ δεσμωτηρίου. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 16:21)
  • κατὰ μέτωπον δέ, ἐξ οὗ τὴν εἴσοδον ἦσαν πεποιημένοι, κίονεσ ἕστασαν χρύσεοι χαλκείαισ βάσεσιν ἐφεστῶτεσ τὸν ἀριθμὸν πέντε. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 157:1)
  • ἵδρυτο δὲ καὶ πρὸ τῆσ σκηνῆσ βωμὸσ χάλκεοσ ὑπόξυλοσ καὶ αὐτὸσ ἑκάστην πλευρὰν πέντε πήχεσιν ἐκμεμετρημένοσ, τὸ δὲ ὕψοσ τρίπηχυσ, ὁμοίωσ τῷ χρυσῷ κεκοσμημένοσ, χαλκείαισ λεπίσιν ἐξησκημένοσ, δικτύῳ τὴν ἐσχάραν ἐμφερήσ· (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 3 186:1)

Synonyms

  1. smith's work

Related

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

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