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ψυχῶν (psychon)

ψυχῶν is an Ancient Greek form of ψυχή, meaning “soul, life, spirit”. It is the genitive plural feminine noun.

Found 136 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 8.1.31: … αὶ τὰ ἔργα. ἐκριφθεῖσαν δʼ αὐτὴν ἐπὶ γῆς πλάζεσθαι ἐν τῷ ἀέρι ὁμοίαν τῷ σώματι. τὸν δʼ Ἑρμῆν ταμίαν εἶναι τῶν ψυχῶν καὶ διὰ τοῦτο πομπαῖον λέγεσθαι καὶ πυλαῖον καὶ χθόνιον, ἐπειδήπερ οὗτος εἰσπέμπει ἀπὸ τῶν σωμάτων τὰς ψυχὰς …

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Tetrabiblos 1.2: … σωμάτων μετατροπὰς ἀλλὰ καὶ διὰ τῶν καθʼ ἑκάστην ἡμέραν περιόδων, θερμαίνων τε καὶ ὑγραίνων καὶ ξηραίνων καὶ ψύχων τεταγμένως τε καὶ ἀκολούθως τοῖς πρὸς τὸν κατὰ κορυφὴν ἡμῶν γινομένοις ὁμοιοτρόποις σχηματισμοῖς ἥ τε σελήνη …

All forms of ψυχή (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.