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χῶμα

Third declension Noun; Neuter 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χῶμα χῶματος

Structure: χωματ (Stem)

Etym.: xo/w

Sense

  1. earth thrown up, a bank, mound, a dike, a dam, a mole or pier

Declension

Third 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

  • ἐξέτεινεν οὖν Ἀαρὼν τῇ χειρὶ τὴν ράβδον καὶ ἐπάταξε τὸ χῶμα τῆσ γῆσ, καὶ ἐγένοντο οἱ σκνῖφεσ ἐν τοῖσ ἀνθρώποισ καὶ ἐν τοῖσ τετράποσι, καὶ ἐν παντὶ χώματι τῆσ γῆσ ἐγένοντο οἱ σκνῖφεσ. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 8:13)
  • θήσῃ ἐπὶ χώματι ἐν πέτρᾳ καὶ ὡσ πέτρα χειμάρρου Σωφίρ. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 22:24)
  • καὶ πολλοὶ τῶν καθευδόντων ἐν γῆσ χώματι ἐξεγερθήσονται, οὗτοι εἰσ ζωὴν αἰώνιον καὶ οὗτοι εἰσ ὀνειδισμὸν καὶ εἰσ αἰσχύνην αἰώνιον. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 12:2)
  • τὸν δὲ χόον ὅντινα ἐκβάλλουσιν ἐκ τοῦ ὀρύγματοσ, ἐπὶ τὰ χείλεα ἑκάτερα τῆσ τάφρου ἐπιφορήσαντεσ ἀντὶ τείχεοσ διαχρέονται, αὐτοὶ δὲ ἐπὶ τῷ χώματι τῷ ἐπὶ τοῦ χείλεοσ τοῦ ἔξω τῆσ τάφρου σκηνάσ σφιν ὀρυκτὰσ ποιέονται, καὶ διὰ τούτων ὀπὰσ ὑπολείπονται· (Arrian, Indica, chapter 13 3:1)
  • εἶτα αὐτὸσ μὲν ἀποτρέπεται μετὰ τῶν ἄλλων ἱερέων τῆσ δὲ καταβάσησ ἥ τε κλίμαξ ἀναιρεῖται καὶ κατακρύπτεται τὸ οἴκημα γῆσ πολλῆσ ἄνωθεν ἐπιφορουμένησ, ὥστε ἰσόπεδον τῷ λοιπῷ χώματι γενέσθαι τὸν τόπον, οὕτω μὲν αἱ προέμεναι τὴν ἱερὰν παρθενίαν κολάζονται. (Plutarch, Numa, chapter 10 7:1)

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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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