μαχαίραις (machairais)

μαχαίραις is an Ancient Greek form of μάχαιρα, meaning “knife, dagger”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

Found 25 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Camillus 40.3: … θεν ὑποστὰς τὴν στρατηγίαν κατέλεγε τοὺς μαχησομένους. εἰδὼς δὲ τῆς τῶν βαρβάρων ἀλκῆς τὴν βιαιοτάτην ἐν ταῖς μαχαίραις οὖσαν, ἃς βαρβαρικῶς καὶ σὺν οὐδεμιᾷ τέχνῃ καταφέροντες ὤμους μάλιστα καὶ κεφαλὰς διέκοπτον,

All forms of μάχαιρα (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.