πήχεων (pecheon)

πήχεων is an Ancient Greek form of πῆχυς, meaning “forearm; cubit”. It is the genitive plural masculine noun.

Found 56 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Cyclops 391: πήχεων, βάθος δὲ τεσσάρων ἐφαίνετο.

Strabo, Geography 14.2.5: … λλοις τόποις. ἄριστα δὲ ὅ τε τοῦ Ἡλίου κολοσσός, ὅν φησιν ὁ ποιήσας τὸ ἰαμβεῖον ὅτι ἑπτάκις δέκα Χάρης ἐποίει πηχέων ὁ Λίνδιος. κεῖται δὲ νῦν ὑπὸ σεισμοῦ πεσὼν περικλασθεὶς ἀπὸ τῶν γονάτων· οὐκ ἀνέστησαν δʼ αὐτὸν κατά τι λόγιο …

All forms of πῆχυς (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.