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ἐνέχυρα (enechyra)

ἐνέχυρα is an Ancient Greek form of ἐνέχυρον, meaning “pledge, security; in pawn”. It is the accusative plural neuter noun.

Found 33 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus 13.2: … ν), ἡγούμενος ὁ Περσεὺς οὐδὲν ἔτι δεῖσθαι τῶν χρημάτων τὴν ἐκπολέμωσιν, ἄλυτα τοῦ Γενθίου προδεδωκότος ἔχθρας ἐνέχυρα καὶ διὰ τηλικαύτης ἀδικίας ἐμβεβληκότος ἑαυτὸν εἰς τὸν πόλεμον,

Demosthenes, Against Evergus and Mnesibulus 77: … αίτοι πῶς ἄν, εἰ μὴ πεπορισμένον ἦν, εὐθὺς ἀπέλαβε τὸ ἀργύριον χιλίας τριακοσίας δέκα τρεῖς δύʼ ὀβολώ; καὶ τὰ ἐνέχυρά μοι οὐκ ἀπεδίδου, ἀλλʼ ἔτι καὶ νῦν ἔχει ὡς ὑπερημέρου ὄντος. ὅτι δʼ οὐκ ἦν αὐτῷ ὑπερήμερος, ἀνάγνωθί μοι τὸν …

All forms of ἐνέχυρον (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.