ᾅδης (hades)

ᾅδης means “Hades, the underworld; the god of the dead”.

Ancient Greek word, found 91 times in the texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 1.prol.8: … ο κατʼ αὐτοὺς εἶναι ἀρχάς, ἀγαθὸν δαίμονα καὶ κακὸν δαίμονα· καὶ τῷ μὲν ὄνομα εἶναι Ζεὺς καὶ Ὠρομάσδης, τῷ δὲ ᾍδης καὶ Ἀρειμάνιος. φησὶ δὲ τοῦτο καὶ Ἕρμιππος ἐν τῷ πρώτῳ περὶ Μάγων καὶ Εὔδοξος ἐν τῇ Περιόδῳ καὶ Θεόπομπος ἐν …

Plutarch, Consolatio ad Apollonium 15·2: … σεμνὰ κεῖνα, ποῦ δὲ Λυδίας μέγας δυνάστης Κροῖσος ἢ Ξέρξης βαρὺν ζεύξας θαλάσσης αὐχένʼ Ἑλλησποντίας; ἅπαντες ᾍδαν ἦλθον καὶ Λάθας δόμους, τῶν χρημάτων ἅμα τοῖς σώμασι διαφθαρέντων.

New Testament, Matthew 11.23: Καὶ σύ, Καφαρναούμ, μὴ ἕως οὐρανοῦ ὑψωθήσῃ; ἕως ᾄδου καταβήσῃ. ὅτι εἰ ἐν Σοδόμοις ἐγενήθησαν αἱ δυνάμεις αἱ γενόμεναι ἐν σοί, ἔμεινεν ἂν μέχρι τῆς σήμερον.

All forms of ᾅδης (declension)

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.