ᾗπερ (heper)

ᾗπερ is an Ancient Greek form of ἤ, meaning “or; than”.

It can also be a form of ὅς, “who, which, that (relative); his own”. It is the nominative singular feminine pronoun.

It can also be a form of ὅσπερ, “the very one who, which”.

Found 590 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 3.189: ἠνορέη, τόδʼ ἔρεξε κατὰ χρέος, ᾗπερ ἐῴκει

Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.56.1: … ν φρουρὰν γίγνοιτό τις ἀπόβασις, πλήθει τε ἐλάσσους ἕκαστοι ἡγούμενοι εἶναι καὶ ἐν τῷ τοιούτῳ· μία δὲ φρουρά, ἥπερ καὶ ἠμύνατο περὶ Κοτύρταν καὶ Ἀφροδιτίαν, τὸν μὲν ὄχλον τῶν ψιλῶν ἐσκεδασμένον ἐφόβησεν ἐπιδρομῇ, τῶν δὲ ὁπλι …

Strabo, Geography 11.4.7: … ὴν θυσίαν τῆς θεοῦ, σὺν ἄλλοις ἱερείοις θύεται μυρισθείς. τῆς δὲ θυσίας ὁ τρόπος οὗτος· ἔχων τις ἱερὰν λόγχην ᾗπέρ ἐστι νόμος ἀνθρωποθυτεῖν, παρελθὼν ἐκ τοῦ πλήθους παίει διὰ τῆς πλευρᾶς εἰς τὴν καρδίαν, οὐκ ἄπειρος τοιούτου …

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.