μαχαίρας (machairas)

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

Found 70 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 242: θήξεις μαχαίρας καὶ μέγαν φάκελον ξύλων

Flavius Josephus, Jewish Antiquities 14.435: Μαχαιρᾶς μὲν οὖν Ἀντιγόνου καλοῦντος αὐτὸν παρὰ τὴν Ἡρώδου γνώμην χρήμασι διεφθαρμένος ἀπῄει ὡς κατασκεψόμενος αὐτοῦ τ …

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.