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χῖδρον

Second declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: χῖδρον χῖδρου

Structure: χιδρ (Stem) + ον (Ending)

Etym.: mostly in pl.

Sense

  1. unripe wheaten groats

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

  • ἐὰν δὲ προσφέρῃσ θυσίαν πρωτογεννημάτων τῷ Κυρίῳ, νέα πεφρυγμένα χίδρα ἐρικτὰ τῷ Κυρίῳ, καὶ προσοίσεισ τὴν θυσίαν τῶν πρωτογεννημάτων (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 2:13)
  • καὶ ἄρτον καὶ πεφρυγμένα χίδρα νέα οὐ φάγεσθε ἕωσ εἰσ αὐτὴν τὴν ἡμέραν ταύτην, ἕωσ ἂν προσενέγκητε ὑμεῖσ τὰ δῶρα τῷ Θεῷ ὑμῶν. νόμιμον αἰώνιον εἰσ τὰσ γενεὰσ ὑμῶν ἐν πάσῃ κατοικίᾳ ὑμῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Leviticus 23:14)
  • ἀλλ’ ὁπότ’ ἢ ἐρίφοιο νεοσφάγοσ ἠὲ καὶ ἀρνὸσ ἠὲ κλυτοῦ ὄρνιθοσ ἐφοπλίζεσθαι ἐδωδήν, χίδρα μὲν ἐντρίψειασ ὑποστρώσασ ἐνὶ κοίλοισ ἄγγεσιν, εὐώδει δὲ μιγῇ ἀνάφυρσον ἐλαίῳ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 100 2:5)
  • διὰ τούτων, ὦ θαυμασιώτατε, ὑπογράφει ὁ Νίκανδροσ τὴν χρείαν τοῦ τε χόνδρου καὶ τῆσ ἐπτισμένησ κριθῆσ, ἐπιχεῖν κελεύων ἀρνὸσ ἢ ἐρίφου ζωμὸν ἢ ὄρνιθοσ, τὰ μὲν οὖν χίδρα, φησίν, ἔντριψον μὲν ἐν θυείᾳ, μίξασ δ’ ἔλαιον αὐτοῖσ ἀναφύρασον ἡνίκ’ ἂν ἕψηται. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 100 3:3)
  • τοῖσ ἀγροίκοισιν γὰρ ἦσθα χῖδρα καὶ σωτηρία. (Aristophanes, Peace, Choral, antistrophe 25)
  • ἢν δέ ποτ’ εἰσ ἀγρὸν οὗτοσ ἀπελθὼν εἰρηναῖοσ διατρίψῃ, καὶ χῖδρα φαγὼν ἀναθαρρήσῃ καὶ στεμφύλῳ ἐσ λόγον ἔλθῃ, γνώσεται οἱών ἀγαθῶν αὐτὸν τῇ μισθοφορᾷ παρεκόπτου· (Aristotle, Agon, Epirrheme 1:8)

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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