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κλήρων (kleron)

κλήρων is an Ancient Greek form of κλῆρος, meaning “lot; allotment”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

It can also be a form of κληρόω, “assign by lot”.

Found 37 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, De E apud Delphos 16: … ῖσι τῇ γὰρ ἕκτῃ τοῦ νέου μηνὸς ὅταν κατάγῃ εἷς τὴν Πυθίαν εἰς τὸ πρυτανεῖον, ὁ πρῶτος ὑμῖν γίγνεται τῶν τριῶν κλήρων εἰς, τὰ πέντε, πρὸς ἀλλήλους ἐκείνης τὰ τρία τοῦ δὲ τὰ δύο βάλλοντες. ἦ γὰρ οὐχ οὕτως ἔχει; καὶ ὁ Νίκανδρος ο …

All forms of κλῆρος (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.