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χεῖρε (cheire)

χεῖρε is an Ancient Greek form of χείρ, meaning “hand, arm”. It is the accusative dual feminine noun.

Found 79 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.378: ἦ τʼ ἂν ἀπὸ γλώσσας τε ταμὼν καὶ χεῖρε κεάσσας

Plutarch, Pompey 53.6: … ὲ ἀνεῖλεν ἡ τύχη τὸν ἔφεδρον τοῦ ἀγῶνος, εὐθὺς ἦν εἰπεῖν τὸ κωμικόν, ὡς ἅτερος πρὸς τὸν ἕτερον ὑπαλείφεται τὼ χεῖρέ θʼ ὑποκονίεται.

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.