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πηχῶν (pechon)

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

Found 107 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lysander 18.1: … ἠφανίσθησαν. ἐν δὲ τῷ Βρασίδου καὶ Ἀκανθίων θησαυρῷ τριήρης ἔκειτο διὰ χρυσοῦ πεποιημένη καὶ ἐλέφαντος δυεῖν πηχῶν, ἣν Κῦρος αὐτῷ νικητήριον ἔπεμψεν.

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.