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χέρνιψ

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: χέρνιψ χέρνιβος

Structure: χερνιβ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from xerni/ptomai

Sense

water for washing the hands
purifications with holy water, the use thereof, the use of it, therein
libations

Declension

Third declension

	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	χέρνιψ	χέρνιβε	χέρνιβες
Genitive	χέρνιβος	χερνίβοιν	χερνίβων
Dative	χέρνιβι	χερνίβοιν	χέρνιψιν*
Accusative	χέρνιβα	χέρνιβε	χέρνιβας
Vocative	χέρνιψ	χέρνιβε	χέρνιβες

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

χέρνιβασ δὲ καὶ κατάργματα οὐκ ἂν φθάνοισ ἂν εὐτρεπῆ ποιουμένη. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode5)
ὃν ἐπὶ χέρνιβασ μολὼν Κάδμοσ ὄλεσε μαρμάρῳ· (Euripides, Phoenissae, choral, antistrophe 12)
τὸν ἄνδρ’ ἀπαυδῶ τοῦτον, ὅστισ ἐστί, γῆσ τῆσδ’, ἧσ ἐγὼ κράτη τε καὶ θρόνουσ νέμω, μήτ’ εἰσδέχεσθαι μήτε προσφωνεῖν τινα, μήτ’ ἐν θεῶν εὐχαῖσι μήτε θύμασιν κοινὸν ποεῖσθαι, μήτε χέρνιβασ νέμειν· (Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus, episode12)
κἀγὼ χέουσα τάσδε χέρνιβασ βροτοῖσ λέγω καλοῦσα πατέρ’, "ἐποίκτιρόν τ’ ἐμὲ φίλον τ’ Ὀρέστην· (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, episode 3:18)
καὶ χέρνιβασ ἑλόμενοι ὑπὲρ κεφαλῆσ τῆσ βοὸσ οἱ ἱερεῖσ καὶ οἱ Λευῖται καὶ ἡ γερουσία τῆσ πόλεωσ ἐκείνησ καθαρὰσ ἀναβοησάτωσαν τὰσ χεῖρασ ἔχειν ἀπὸ τοῦ φόνου καὶ μήτε δρᾶσαι μήτε δρωμένῳ παρατυχεῖν, ἐπικαλεῖσθαι δὲ ἵλεω τὸν θεὸν καὶ μηκέτι τοιοῦτον δεινὸν συμβῆναι τῇ γῇ πάθοσ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 4 285:1)
ὃ δ’ ἐσιδὼν ὅσον τάχοσ ἐσ χέρνιβάσ τε καὶ σφαγεῖ’ ἔπεμπέ σοι. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Tauris, episode 5:7)
πικροὺσ δὲ προχύτασ χέρνιβάσ τ’ ἀνάξεται Κάλχασ ὁ μάντισ. (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue 2:4)
ὁ παῖσ δ’ ὁ Πηλέωσ ἐν κύκλῳ βωμὸν θεᾶσ λαβὼν κανοῦν ἔβρεξε χέρνιβάσ θ’ ὁμοῦ, ἔλεξε δ’· (Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, episode, dialogue21)

Synonyms

water for washing the hands
- νίπτρον (water for washing)
- χέρνιβον (a vessel for water to wash the hands, a basin)
- ποδάνιπτρον (water for washing the feet in)
- λουτρόν (a bath, bathing place, baths)
libations
- σπονδή (libation)
- ἐπίσπεισις (a libation over)
- λουτρόν (libations to the dead)
- σπονδαρχία (the beginning of the libation, the right of beginning it)

Similar forms

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

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Sense

Declension

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water for washing the hands

libations

Similar forms

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