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κῆρας (keras)

κῆρας is an Ancient Greek form of κήρ, meaning “fate, doom (of death)”. It is the accusative plural feminine noun.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1665: ἔνθα δʼ ἀοιδῇσιν μειλίσσετο, μέλπε δὲ Κῆρας

Euripides, Electra 1300: οὐκ ἠρκέσατον κῆρας μελάθροις;

Plutarch, Quomodo adulator ab amico internoscatur 26: ὥσπερ οὖν κῆράς τινας ἐπούσας τῇ παρρησίᾳ πλείονας ὁρῶντες πρῶτον ἀφαιρῶμεν αὐτῆς τὴν φιλαυτίαν, εὖ μάλα φυλαττόμενοι μὴ διά …

All forms of κήρ (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.