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Ἥφαιστον (Hephaiston)

Ἥφαιστον is an Ancient Greek form of Ἥφαιστος, meaning “Hephaestus (god of the forge)”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 60 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.775: δεύτερα δʼ εἰς Ἥφαιστον ἐβήσατο· παῦσε δὲ τόνγε

John of Damascus, Saint, Vita Barlaam et Joasaph 27.246: … κατὰ μίμησιν τοῦ θεοῦ αὐτῶν. πῶς οὖν ἐνδέχεται θεὸν εἶναι μοιχὸν ἢ ἀνδροβάτην ἢ πατροκτόνον; Σὺν τούτῳ δὲ καὶ Ἥφαιστόν τινα παρεισάγουσι θεὸν εἶναι, καὶ τοῦτον χωλόν, καὶ κρατοῦντα σφῦραν καὶ πυρόλαβον, καὶ χαλκεύοντα χάριν τροφ …

All forms of Ἥφαιστος (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.