γραφαί (graphai)

γραφαί is an Ancient Greek form of γραφή, meaning “writing, drawing”.

Found 73 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Hecuba 866: ἢ πλῆθος αὐτὸν πόλεος ἢ νόμων γραφαὶ

New Testament, Mark 14.49: καθʼ ἡμέραν ἤμην πρὸς ὑμᾶς ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ διδάσκων καὶ οὐκ ἐκρατήσατέ με· ἀλλʼ ἵνα πληρωθῶσιν αἱ γραφαί.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 8·13: … τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν νομίσητε ἢ τὴν τῶν ὄντων ἀληθῆ κατανόησιν, ἣν καὶ μακαριότητα ὀνομάζουσιν αἱ Θεῖαι Γραφαί· Ἡ γὰρ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἐντὸς ὑμῶν ἐστί. περὶ δὲ τὸν ἐντὸς ἄνθρωπον οὐδὲν ἕτερον ἢ θεωρία συνίσταται.

All forms of γραφή (declension table)

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.