ἁφήν (haphen)

ἁφήν is an Ancient Greek form of ἁφή, meaning “lighting, kindling”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 31 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Antony 27.2: … ρ ἦν, ὡς λέγουσιν, αὐτὸ μὲν καθʼ αὑτὸ τὸ κάλλος αὐτῆς οὐ πάνυ δυσπαράβλητον, οὐδὲ οἷον ἐκπλῆξαι τοὺς ἰδόντας, ἁφὴν δʼ εἶχεν ἡ συνδιαίτησις ἄφυκτον, ἥ τε μορφὴ μετὰ τῆς ἐν τῷ διαλέγεσθαι πιθανότητος καὶ τοῦ περιθέοντος ἅμα πω …

Plutarch, De communibus notitiis adversus Stoicos 17: … μβανόμεθα καὶ μὴ λευκῶν χρωμάτων; ἐγὼ μὲν γὰρ οὔτε γεῦσιν οἶμαι φροῦδον ἂν γενέσθαι, πικρῶν ἐπιλιπόντων, οὔθʼ ἁφήν, ἀλγηδόνος ἀναιρεθείσης, οὔτε φρόνησιν, κακοῦ μὴ παρόντος· ἀλλʼ ἐκείνας τε μένειν αἰσθήσεις γλυκέων καὶ ἡδέων …

All forms of ἁφή (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.