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Φερώρᾳ (Pherora)

Φερώρᾳ is an Ancient Greek form of Φερώρας, meaning “Pheroras — brother of Herod the Great”. It is the dative singular masculine noun or adjective or vocative singular masculine noun or adjective.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 14.419: Ἡρώδης δὲ τὴν μὲν τούτων πρόνοιαν Φερώρᾳ τῷ νεωτάτῳ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἐπιτρέπει κελεύσας αὐτὸν ἅμα τειχίζειν καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρειον. ὁ δὲ ταχέως τε τοὺς στρατιώτας ἐν ἀφθονίᾳ πολλῇ τῶν ἀναγκαίων ἐποίησεν τό τε Ἀλεξάνδρειον ἠρημωμένον ἀνέκτισεν.

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.