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χηλός

Second declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: χηλός χηλοῦ

Structure: χηλ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. a large chest or coffer

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

  • πᾶν κτῆνοσ διχηλοῦν ὁπλὴν καὶ ὀνυχιστῆρασ ὀνυχίζον δύο χηλῶν καὶ ἀνάγον μηρυκισμὸν ἐν τοῖσ κτήνεσι, ταῦτα φάγεσθε. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 11:3)
  • πᾶν κτῆνοσ διχηλοῦν ὁπλὴν καὶ ὀνυχιστῆρασ ὀνυχίζον δύο χηλῶν καὶ ἀνάγον μηρυκισμὸν ἐν τοῖσ κτήνεσι, ταῦτα φάγεσθε. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 14:6)
  • ἀπὸ Χηλῶν ὀγδοήκοντα καὶ ἑκατόν, ἵναπερ Σαγγάριοσ ποταμὸσ ἐσβάλλει ἐσ τὸν Πόντον. (Arrian, Periplus Ponti Euxini, chapter 13 2:3)

Synonyms

  1. a large chest or coffer

Related

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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