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φλεβῶν (phlebon)

φλεβῶν is an Ancient Greek form of φλέψ, meaning “vein, blood vessel”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun.

Found 74 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Crassus 25.5: … ὶ τοῖς ὀιστοῖς ἐναποθραύειν τοῖς τραύμασι, βίᾳ τε πειρωμένους ἐξέλκειν ἠγκιστρωμένας ἀκίδας καὶ δεδυκυίας διὰ φλεβῶν καὶ νεύρων προσαναρρηγνύναι καὶ λυμαίνεσθαι σφᾶς αὐτούς.

All forms of φλέψ (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.