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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
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative χηλός χηλώ χηλοί
Genitive χηλοῦ χηλοῖν χηλῶν
Dative χηλῷ χηλοῖν χηλοῖς
Accusative χηλόν χηλώ χηλούς
Vocative χηλέ χηλώ χηλοί

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)
  • αἱ δὲ σκυζόμεναι γυμνοῖσ ποσὶν οἴκαδ’ ἰάσι, πολλά με τωθάζοισαι, ὅ τ’ ἀλιθίαν ὁδὸν ἦνθον, ὀκνηραὶ δὲ πάλιν κενεᾶσ ἐν πυθμένι χηλοῦ ψυχροῖσ ἐν γονάτεσσι κάρη μίμνοντι βαλοῖσαι, ἔνθ’ αἰεί σφισιν ἕδρα, ἐπὴν ἄπρηκτοι ἵκωνται. (Theocritus, Idylls, 5)
  • "δεῦρο, γύναι, φέρε χηλὸν ἀριπρεπέ’, ἥ τισ ἀρίστη· (Homer, Odyssey, Book 8 56:1)

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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