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χερσίν (chersin)

χερσίν is an Ancient Greek form of χείρ, meaning “hand, arm”. It is the dative plural feminine noun.

Found 604 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.281: ὄφρʼ αὐτός με τεῇσι φίλαις ταρχύσαο χερσίν,

Sappho, Poems and Fragments (ed. Edmonds 1922) 117.2: ὄρπακας ἀνήτοιο συνέρραισʼ ἀπάλαισι χέρσιν·

All forms of χείρ (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.