Strong G5495χείρ
hand
- Transliteration
- cheir
- Pronunciation
- khire
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Feminine)
Definition
Detailed definition
χείρ, genitive, χειρος (accusative, χεῖραν, 1Pe.5:6 T), ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for יָד;]
the hand: Mat.3:12, Mrk.3:1, Luk.6:6, al. mult.; ἡ χ., acting subject, Luk.22:21; pl., Act.17:25 20:34, 1Jn.1:1; τ. ἔργα τῶν χ., Act.7:41, Rev.9:20; ὁ ἀσπασμὸς τ. ἐμῇ χ., 1Co.16:21, Col.4:18, 2Th.3:17; prepositional phrases, esp. those without art., similar to Heb. constructions (Bl., §32, 4; 40, 9; 46, 9), ἐν χ.; with genitive (Lft., in l.), Gal.3:19; σὺν χ. ἀγγέλου, Act.7:35; διὰ (τῶν) χειρῶν (διὰ χειρός), Mrk.6:2, Act.5:12 7:25, al.; ἐπὶ χειρῶν, Mat.4:6, Luk.4:11; ellipse of χ. (ἡ δεξία, ἀριστερα; Bl., §44, 1), Mat.6:3, al. By meton., for the power or activity of an individual, Mat.17:22, Mrk.9:31, Luk.9:31, Jhn.10:39, Act.12:11, al.; metaphorically, of the activity or power of God: Luk.1:66 23:46, Jhn.10:29, Act.11:21 13:11, al.
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for יָד;]
the hand: Mat.3:12, Mrk.3:1, Luk.6:6, al. mult.; ἡ χ., acting subject, Luk.22:21; pl., Act.17:25 20:34, 1Jn.1:1; τ. ἔργα τῶν χ., Act.7:41, Rev.9:20; ὁ ἀσπασμὸς τ. ἐμῇ χ., 1Co.16:21, Col.4:18, 2Th.3:17; prepositional phrases, esp. those without art., similar to Heb. constructions (Bl., §32, 4; 40, 9; 46, 9), ἐν χ.; with genitive (Lft., in l.), Gal.3:19; σὺν χ. ἀγγέλου, Act.7:35; διὰ (τῶν) χειρῶν (διὰ χειρός), Mrk.6:2, Act.5:12 7:25, al.; ἐπὶ χειρῶν, Mat.4:6, Luk.4:11; ellipse of χ. (ἡ δεξία, ἀριστερα; Bl., §44, 1), Mat.6:3, al. By meton., for the power or activity of an individual, Mat.17:22, Mrk.9:31, Luk.9:31, Jhn.10:39, Act.12:11, al.; metaphorically, of the activity or power of God: Luk.1:66 23:46, Jhn.10:29, Act.11:21 13:11, al.
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G5495 appears in 171 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- hand169
- with4
- of2
- by1
- in1
First verses
- Matthew 3:12Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
- Matthew 4:6And saith unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down: for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee: and in their hands they shall bear thee up, lest at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone.
- Matthew 5:30And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
- Matthew 8:3And Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
- Matthew 8:15And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.
- Matthew 9:18While he spake these things unto them, behold, there came a certain ruler, and worshipped him, saying, My daughter is even now dead: but come and lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.
- Matthew 9:25But when the people were put forth, he went in, and took her by the hand, and the maid arose.
- Matthew 12:10And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.
- Matthew 12:13Then saith he to the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it forth; and it was restored whole, like as the other.
- Matthew 12:49And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
- Matthew 14:31And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?
- Matthew 15:2Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
- Matthew 15:20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
- Matthew 17:22And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:
- Matthew 18:8Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
- Matthew 19:13Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.
- Matthew 19:15And he laid his hands on them, and departed thence.
- Matthew 22:13Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 26:23And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.
- Matthew 26:45Then cometh he to his disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
χείρ, ἡ, χειρός, χειρί, χεῖρα,
dual χεῖρε, χεροῖν, plural χεῖρες, χερῶν, χεῖρας, penultimate being regularly short, when the ultima is long; dative plural regularly χερσί (χειρσί occurs in codex Vat. of [LXX (LXX, as LXX.Judg.7.19, LXX.1Ch.5.10)], and late Inscrr. as [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2811A b.10 (from Aphrodisias), 2942c (from Tralles): but Poets used the penultimate long or short in all cases, as the verse required, χερός, χερί, χέρα, χέρε, χέρες, χέρας (of which 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses only χερ; χέρα “hymnus ad Panem” 40); _genitive_ dual χειροῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 206 (Lyric poetry), 1394 (Lyric poetry), “IG” 22.1498.76; _genitive_ _plural_ χειρῶν [prev. work]31, common in Prose.—poetical forms, _dative_ _plural_ χείρεσι (ν) once in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.468, also 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 2.401, 5.469 (variant); χείρεσσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.382, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).62, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 976 (Lyric poetry), 1297 (Lyric poetry))], and once in trimeter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 756)]; χέρεσσι (ν) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 519, 747, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 17.49; χερέεσσιν “AJA” 36.460 (from Galatia))]:—Doric dialect nominative χέρς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Timocreon Lyricus 9)]; χήρ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus in “PSI” 11.1214a3)] (also, ={δίψακος}, Ps.-[Refs 7th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.11); _genitive_ χηρός 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 32, “IG” 42(1).121.22 (Epid., 4th c.BC); _accusative_ _plural_ χῆρας [prev. work]96, _Aeolic dialect_ χέρρας 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 4.21, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 28.9.—On the accent and declension of these forms, see Hdn.Gr. 2.277, 748)]:— the hand, whether closed, παχεῖα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.376; βαρεῖα 11.235, +others)]; or open, flat, χερσὶ καταπρηνέσσι, χειρὶ καταπρηνεῖ,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (15.114, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.164, +others; εἰς τὴν χ. ἐγχεάμενοί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.9)]: frequently in plural where a single hand is meant, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.384, etc.)]; reversely, singular where more than one hand is spoken of, e.g. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.37, etc.)]; dual joined with plural, ἄμφω χεῖρας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8.135; χεῖρε ἀμφοτέρας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.115.)]
2 hand and arm, arm [Refs 8th c.BC+ (compare (2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 11, 82, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 2.347), πῆχυν χειρὸς δεξιτερῆς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.166; κατὰ χεῖρα μέσην ἀγκῶνος ἔνερθε 11.252; χεῖρες ἀπ᾽ ὤμων ἀΐσσοντο 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 150; χ. εἰς ὤμους γυμναί 3rd c.AD(?): Longus Scriptor Eroticus 1.4)]; ἐν χερσὶ γυναικῶν πεσέειν into the arms, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.81, etc.)]: hence, words are added to denote the hand as distinct from the arm, ἄκρην οὔτασε χεῖρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5.336; περὶ ἄκραις ταῖς χ. χειρῖδας ἔχουσι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.17, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 352a.)]
3 of the hand or paw of animals, ὅσα [ζῷα] χεῖρας ἔχει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.4.14)]; πορεύεσθαι ἐπὶ χειρῶν go on all fours. [LXX (LXX.Lev.11.27)]; so of monkeys, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 502b3)]; of the fore-paws of the hyena, [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 369)]; of the bear, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.919a.)]
II Special usages:
II.1 to denote position, ποτέρας τῆς χερό; on which hand? [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 681; ἐπὶ δεξιὰ χειρός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 6.19; ἐπ᾽ ἀριστερὰ χειρός 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.277; χειρὸς εἰς τὰ δεξιά 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 598; λαιᾶς χειρός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 714 (but χείρ is often omitted with δεξιά, ἀριστερά,)] as we say the right, the left).
II.2 frequently in dative of all numbers with Verbs which imply the use of hands, λάβε χειρί, χερσὶν ἑλέσθαι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.302, 10.501; χερσὶν ἀσπάζεσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.35; προκαλίζεσθαι 18.20)]; χειρί, χεροῖν ψαῦσαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1510, 1466)]: sometimes this dative is added pleonastic by way of emphasis, ὄνυξι συλλαβὼν χερί [Refs ([prev. author] “Aj.” 310.)]
II.3 genitive, by the hand, χειρὸς ἔχειν τινά [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.154; χειρὸς ἑλών 1.323, etc.)]; γέροντα δὲ χειρὸς ἀνίστη he raised him by the hand,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (24.515, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.319; χερὶ χειρὸς ἑλών 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.122; τινὰ χειρός ἑλκειν [prev. author] “N.” 11.32; ἀνέλκειν τινὰ τῆς χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 569 (_anapaest meter_).)]
II.4 the accusative is used when one takes the hand of a person, χεῖρα γέροντος ἑλών [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.361; χεῖρ᾽ ἕλε δεξιτερήν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.121)]; χεῖράς τ᾽ ἀλλήλων λαβέτην, in pledge of good faith, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.233; so ἔμβαλλε χ. δεξιὰν πρώτιστά μοι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1181; also ἔμβαλλε χειρὸς πίστιν [prev. author] “Ph.” 813, compare “OC” 1632.)]
II.5 other uses of the accusative:
II.5.a in prayer or entreaty, χεῖρας ἀνασχεῖν [θεοῖς] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.275, etc.; ποτὶ γούνασι χεῖρας βάλλειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.310; ἀμφὶ.. Ἀρήτης βάλε γούνασι χεῖρας Ὀδυσσεύς 7.142; ἀμφὶ δὲ χεῖρας δειρῇ βάλλ᾽ Ὀδυσῆϊ 23.207; ἀμφί τινι χεῖρε β. 21.223; περίβαλε δὲ χέρας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 914, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1559 (_anapaest meter_); χεῖρας προΐσχεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.58, 66; so also χεῖρας ἀείρων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.423, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.130 (tmesis))]; χ. ἀνατείνειν (see. ἀνατείνω [Refs (1.1).)]
II.5.b τὰς χεῖρας αἴρειν to hold up hands in token of assent or choice, of persons voting, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 264; τὴν χ. αἴρειν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.41; ὅτῳ δοκεῖ ταῦτα, ἀράτω τὴν χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.33, compare 7.3.6; ἀνατεινάτω τὴν χ. [prev. work] 3.2.9, 33; χεῖρας ὀρεγνύς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.37; χεῖρ᾽ ὀρέγων εἰς οὐρανόν 15.371; χεῖρας ὀ. τινί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.257; πρός τινα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.240; ποτὶ στόμα χεῖρ᾽ ὀρέγεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.506 (but χεῖρά τισι ὀ.)] to reach them one's hand in help, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.17); also χεῖρε ἑτάροισι πετάσσας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.523, etc.; πιτνὰς εἰς ἐμὲ χεῖρας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.392 (but χεῖρε πετάσσας _absolutely_, of one swimming, etc., 5.374, +others).)]
II.5.c [Ἰλίου] χεῖρα ἑὴν ὑπερέσχε held the hand over as a protector, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.420, etc.)]: less frequently τισι, [Refs (4.249, compare 5.433; χεῖρά θ᾽ ὕπερθεν ἔχεις “IG” 14.1003.10 (from Rome).)]
II.5.d in hostile sense, χεῖρας or χεῖρα ἐπιφέρειν τινί, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.89, 19.261, +others; χεῖρας ἐφιέναι τινί 1.567, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.254, +others; χεῖρας ἐπιβάλλειν τισί 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.2.8, etc.; χέρα τινὶ προσενεγκεῖν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.36; χεῖρας ἐπί τινι ἰάλλειν, see at {ἰάλλω} I.1.)]
II.5.e χεῖρας ἀπέχειν keep hands off, λοιμοῖο βαρείας χεῖρας ἀφέξει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.97 codices; κερτομίας δέ τοι.. καὶ χεῖρας ἀφέξω.. μνηστήρων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.263; ἀθανάτων ἀπέχειν χέρας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 350 (Lyric poetry); τὼ χεῖρε ἀπέχεται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 213d; παύειν χεῖράς τινος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.294.)]
II.5.f χεῖρας ἐπιτιθέναι τινί, in token of consecration, [NT (NT.1Tim.5.22, etc.)]
II.6 with Preps.:
II.6.a ἀνὰ χεῖρας ἔχειν τινάς to be intimate with.., [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.6.5; αἱ ἀνὰ χεῖρά τινων ὁμιλίαι 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.64)]; τὰ ἀνὰ χεῖρα πράγματα the matters in hand, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.614b, etc. (also οἱ ἀνὰ χ. χρόνοι)] the current period, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PRyl.” 88.21 (2nd c.AD))]; τὰ ἀνὰ χ. what comes his way, Ps.-[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Centil.” 18)]; ἀνὰ χ. τῆς πύλης hard by.., [LXX (LXX.2Ki.15.2.)]
II.6.b ἀπὸ χειρὸς λογίσασθαι to reckon off-hand, roughly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 656 (_anapaest meter_), compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 29: but πότισον τὴν γῆν ἀπὸ χειρός)] by hand, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri du Caire 155 (3rd c.BC).)]
II.6.c διὰ χερῶν ἔχειν, λαβεῖν, literally, to have or take between the hands, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 193, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 916)]; διὰ χειρὸς ἔχειν to hold in the hand, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1258 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 597 (_anapaest meter_))]; to have in hand, i. e. under control, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.76; διὰ χειρῶν ἔχειν τὴν πολιτείαν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1308a27)]; τὰ τῶν ξυμμάχων keep under control, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.13)]: later, to have a work in hand, be engaged in it, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “Academicorum Index” p.69M. (χερός), 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Isocrate” 4; τὰ ὅπλα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Coriolanus” 2, etc. (also διὰ χ. by direct payment, opposed to διὰ τῆς τραπέζης by banker's order, “BGU” 1156.8 (1st c.BC), etc.;compare διὰ χ. ἔσπευδε τὴν πρᾶσιν 2nd c.AD(?): Charito Scriptor Eroticus 1.12))]; of arms, διὰ χειρὸς εἶναι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Anach.” 35)]; διὰ χ. ἔχειν, with participle, to be continually doing, [NT+1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.767c; διὰ χειρός τινος ποιεῖν τι LXX.Josh.17.4, +others, cf. NT.Act.7.25, +others)]
II.6.d ἐς χεῖρας λαβεῖν τι literally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1120, etc.)]; to take a matter in hand, undertake it, πρᾶγμ᾽ ἐς χέρας λαβόντ᾽ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1242; ἄγεσθαί τι ἐς χεῖρας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.126, 4.79, etc.)]; δοῦναί τινι ἐς χέρας, εἰς χεῖρα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1348, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.22; καταστῆσαι εἰς τὰς χ. τινος 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.28)]; of persons, ἵκεο χεῖρας ἐς ἁμάς thou hast fallen into our hands, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.448 (in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus also simply ὅ τι χεῖρας ἵκοιτο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.331, compare 24.172); so εἰς χεῖρας ἐλθεῖν τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.4.10, compare 2.4.15)]: generally, to have to do with any one, converse with him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “An.” 1.2.26 (so ἐς χεῖρα γῇ ξυνῆψαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 429): most frequently ἐς χεῖρας ἐλθεῖν τισι)] to come to blows or close quarters with.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 680; ἀλλήλοις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.44: _absolutely_, εἰς χ. ἐλθεῖν [prev. author] 4.96; ἐς χ. ἰέναι [prev. author] 2.3, 4.72, compare “PTeb.” 765.6 (2nd c.BC))]; συνιέναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.22)]; also ἐς χειρῶν νόμον (perhaps νομόν) ἀπικέσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.48)]; ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ (perhaps νομῷ) ἀπόλλυσθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 8.89, compare 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.5, “SIG” 167.37 (Mylasa, 4th c.BC), 4th c.AD: Heraclides Historicus “περὶ πολιτειῶν - fragment” 25, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.34.5, 5.111.6)]; ἐν χειρὸς νόμῳ [LXX+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1285a10, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.26; ἐν χειρῶν νομαῖς “SIG” 700.29 (Lete, 2nd c.BC), see reading in LXX.3Mac.1.5)]; ἐν χεροῖν δίκῃ conjecture in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“E.Ba.” 738; εἰς χεῖρας συμμεῖξαι τοῖς πολεμίοις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.11)]; also εἰς χεῖρας δέχεσθαί τινας to await their charge, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “An.” 4.3.31; ἐς χ. ὑπομεῖναί τινας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.72.)]
II.6.e ἐκ χειρός by hand of man, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 27)]: from near at hand, at close range, ἐκ χειρὸς βάλλειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.3.15)]; ἀμύνασθαι[Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. work] 5.4.25; μάχεσθαι [prev. author] “HG” 7.2.14, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.6; πληγὰς ἐκ χ. ἀναδέξασθαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus)] tim.4; οὐ μὴ σωθῇ ἐκ χ. σιδήρου [LXX (LXX.Job.20.24)]; ἡ ἐκ χ. δίκη lynch law, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.37; ἡ ἐκ χ. βία 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.4.6: _metaphorically_, ἡ ἐκ χ. θεωρία)] closerange reading, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Isocrate” 2)]; so of time, out of hand, off-hand, forthwith, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.41.7, +others)]
II.6.f δέπας μητρὶ ἐν χειρὶ τίθει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.585, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.57, 15.120, +others (always so of a cup, hence ἐν χερσὶ τίθει δέπας,)] though found in most codices, was condemned by the critics in Il.[same place], [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.51, 15.130); πρεσβήϊον ἐν χερὶ θήσω 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.289; τόξον, ἔγχος ἔχων ἐν χειρί, 15.443, 17.604; σκῆπτρον δέ οἱ ἔμβαλε χειρί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.37; but ἐν.. χειρὶ σκῆπτρον ἔθηκεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.568)]; of a gift, ἐν χερσὶ τίθει [Refs (1.441, 446)]; ἐν ταῖς χ. ἔχειν, literally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 432d; τὰ ὅπλ᾽ ἐν ταῖς χ. ἔχων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.8, etc. (_metaphorically_, ἔτι μεμνημένων ὑμῶν καὶ μόνον οὐκ ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν ἕκαστ᾽ ἐχόντων [prev. author] 18.226))]; but ἐν χερσὶν ἔχειν also, to have in hand, be engaged in, τὸν γάμον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.35; ἑορτήν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 13; τὴν περὶ Δημοσθένους πραγματείαν 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 1; ἐν χειρί τινα δίκην ἔχων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 172e)]; ὁ ἐν χερσὶ πόλεμος the war in hand, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 8.87)]; περιτειχισμὸς ἐν χερσὶν ὤν[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 21; ἡ ἐν χ. ζήτησις 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 11.208, etc.)]; frequently of fighting, ἐν χερσί hand to hand, ἐν χ. ἦν ἡ μάχη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.43; ἐν χ. ἀποκτεῖναι [prev. author] 3.66, compare 4.57, 96, etc.)]; ἐν χ. γίγνεσθαι τοῖς ἐναντίοις [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 5.72; ἐν χ. εἶναί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.6.11; δίκη ἐν χερσί 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 192; ὁ ψόφος τῶν ὅπλων καὶ τῶν ἵππων ὁ φρυαγμὸς ἐν χερσὶν ἐδόκει εἶναι 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.31)]; ἡ ἐν χερσὶν [δυστυχία] [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cleomenes” 22)]: also in dual, τἀν χεροῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1345 (Lyric poetry))]; ἐν χειρί τινος by the hand of.., [LXX+NT (LXX.Josh.21.2, +others; ἐν χ. ἀγγέλου NT.Act.7.35 (variant).)]
II.6.g ἐπὶ χειρὸς ἔχειν on or in one's hand, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 490)]; ἐπὶ χεῖράς τινων ἐκφέρουσι put into their hands, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.815b)]; also ἐπὶ χεῖρά τινος next to, [LXX (LXX.Neh.3.4.)]
II.6.h κατὰ χειρός, of washing the hands before meals, ὕδωρ κατὰ χειρός (i.e. φερέτω τις), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1216, compare “Av.” 464 (_anapaest meter_), “fragment” 502 (Lyric poetry), 3rd c.BC: Philoxenus Epigrammaticus 1, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 9.408e)]; (without ὕδωρ) κατὰ χ. ἐδόθη [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 261.2, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Archedicus Comicus 2.3)]: proverbial of that which is easily come by, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Teleclides Comicus 1.2 (_anapaest meter_); πάντα μοι κατὰ χ. ἦν τὰ πράγματα)]at hand, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 146.5)]; also κατὰ χειρῶν δοῦναι, χέειν, λαβεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Philyllius Comicus 3, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 287 (variant), 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 470 (troch.), cf. Phot. see at {κατὰ χειρὸς ὕδωρ}: κατὰ χεῖρα)] in deed or act, κατὰ χ. γενναιότατοι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.6)]; opposed to συνέσει, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 7)]; κατὰ χεῖρά σου according to thy will, [LXX (LXX.Sir.25.26: but κατὰ χεῖρας [τῆς σοφίας])] by her side, [Refs ([prev. work] 14.25.)]
i μετὰ χερσὶν ἔχειν between, i.e. in, the hands, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.4, 15.717; [ἄλεισον] μετὰ χ. ἐνώμα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.10: μετὰ χεῖρας ἔχειν)] to have in hand, be engaged in, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.16.β, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.138.)]
k λάβε παρὰ χεῖρα take in hand, [LXX (LXX.Tob.11.4)]; but τὸ πὰρ χειρός the work in hand, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 13.10.)]
l πρὸ χειρῶν close before one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1279, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1207 (assuming variant), “Rh.” 274)]; πρὸ χειρὸς εἶναι conjecture in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 69.5.)]
m πρὸς χειρός τινος by his hand, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 66 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; πρὸς ἐμὴν χεῖρα at the signs given by my hand, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 148 (_anapaest meter_))]; πρὸς χεῖρα ὑποβορβορύζοντες on pressure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 4.7.)]
n ὑπὸ χερσὶ ἁλοῦσα under, i.e. by, another's hands, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.374, etc.)]; ὑπὸ χεῖρα ποιεῖσθαι to bring under one's power, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 1.22)]; οἱ ὑπὸ χ. persons in one's power, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.34)]; ὑπὸ τὴν χ. ἐλθεῖν to come into one's hand, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 57, etc.)]; ὑπὸ χ. in hand, i.e. in stock, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 369b33)]; but also, at hand, i.e. at once, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.548e)]; τὰ ὑπὸ χ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work]56b, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.35)]; ὁ ὑπὸ χ. the attendant, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.75; παρέργως καὶ ὑπὸ χ.)]extempore, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aratus” 3, etc.)]; also καθύπο χεῖρα κινῶν [τὰς οὐσίας], in Alchemy, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Pseudo-Democritus Alchemista p.51 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
III the hand often receives the attributes of the person using it, χ. μεγάλη, of Zeus, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.695 (χ. παγκρατής, of God, 2nd c.AD: Secundus Gnomologus “Sententiae - FPG” 3)]; χ. ὑπερμήκης, of the 'long arm' of the king, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.140.β᾽))]; θοὴ χ., of one throwing, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.306; ἀφνειά 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.1, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 458)]; εὐσεβεστέρα, εὐφιλής, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 141, “Ag.” 34)]; κάρβανος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1061; γεραιά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 143 (_anapaest meter_); πονηρά [prev. author] “Ion” 1316, etc.)]: to denote wealth or poverty, πλειοτέρῃ σὺν χ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.359; κενεὰς σὺν χ. ἔχοντες 10.42, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1280, etc.)]
III.2 it is represented as acting of itself, χεῖρες μαιμῶσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.77, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 50; χεὶρ ὁρᾷ τὸ δράσιμον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 554; δήμου κρατοῦσα χ. [prev. author] “Supp.” 604 (uncertain reading): proverbial, ἁ δὲ χ. τὰν χ. νίζει 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 273; or simply, ἁ χ. τὰν χ. “Anthologia Graeca” 5.207 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus).)]
III.3 plural, in theurgy, name for spiritual powers, αἱ δημιουργικαὶ [τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος] δυνάμεις ἃς θεουργῶν παῖδες χεῖρας ἀποκαλοῦσιν [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Cratylum commentaria” p.101)] P., compare [same work] in R.[Refs (2.252K.)]
IV to denote act or deed, opposed to mere words, in plural, ἔπεσιν καὶ χερσὶν ἀρήξειν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.77)]; μνῆμ᾽ Ἑλένης χειρῶν of her handiwork, her art, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.126 (so in _sing._, δώρημ᾽ ἐκείνῳ τἀνδρὶ τῆς ἐμῆς χ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 603); χερσὶν ἢ λόγῳ [prev. author] “OT” 883 (Lyric poetry), compare “OC” 1297, etc.)]; τῇ χειρὶ χρᾶσθαι to use one's hands, i.with be active, stirring, opposed to ἀργὸς ἐπεστάναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.78, compare 9.72)]; τὰς χ. προσφέρειν to apply force, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.6.31: _sing._, βούλευμα μὲν τὸ Δῖον, Ἡφαίστου δὲ χείρ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 619)]; μιᾷ χειρί single-handed, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.219; χειρὶ καὶ ποδὶ καὶ πάσῃ δυνάμει 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.109, compare 2.115; χερσίν τε ποσίν τε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.360, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).62)], especially of using the hands in a fight, compare above [Refs (11.6d)], e, f; of deeds of violence, πρὶν χειρῶν γεύσασθαι before we try force, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.181)]; ἀδίκων χ. ἄρχειν to give the first blow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.5.13, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.1, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 4.11, etc.; ἀμυνόμενος ἄρχοντα χειρῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 869d: generally, χεῖρες)] violent measures, force, ἐπίσχετε θυμὸν ἐνιπῆς καὶ χειρῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.267; ὑπόδικος χερῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 260 (Lyric poetry); χερσὶ πεποιθώς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.624, etc.; ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ see above 11.6d)]; ὅπως θανάτοιο βαρείας χ. ἀλάλκοι, variant for{κῆρας}, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.548.)]
V a number, band, body of men, especially of soldiers, χεὶρ μεγάλη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.157; in _dative_, οὐ σὺν μεγάλῃ χ. [prev. author] 5.72; πολλῇ χ. 1.174, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.96, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 337; pleonastic, χ. μεγάλῃ πλήθεος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.20; δεδωμάτωμαι δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἐγὼ σμικρᾷ χερί 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 958)]; οἰκεία χείρ, for χεὶρ οἰκετῶν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 629; σὺν πλήθει χερῶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 123.)]
VI handwriting, τὴν ἑαυτοῦ χεῖρα ἀρνήσασθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Lyc.fragment” 5, compare “IG” 9(1).189 (from Phocis))]; τῇ ἐμῇ χ. Παύλου [NT (NT.1Cor.16.21, NT.Col.4.18)]: copy, counterpart of a document, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 712.31 (Crete, 2nd c.BC))]; deed, instrument, ἡ χ. ἥδε κυρία ἔστω [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PRein.” 28.18 (2nd c.BC),compare “PCair.Zen.” 477 (3rd c.BC), etc.)]
VI.b handiwork of an artist or workman, γλαφυρὰ χ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus “epigram” 8.5, etc.; αἱ Ἐφεσίου χεῖρες 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 4.72, compare 6.66; σοφαὶ χέρες “APl.” 4.262; τὰς Φειδίου χ. 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 30.22.)]
VII of any implement resembling a hand:
VII.1 a kind of gauntlet, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 12.5, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.135 (_plural_).)]
VII.2 χ. σιδηρᾶ grappling-iron, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.25, 7.62)]; also of an anchor, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (Anthologia Graeca 6.38 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus).)]
VII.3 axle-tree, [LXX (LXX.3Ki.7.18(32).)]
VII.4 in LXX, pillar or cairn, as it were a finger pointing to heaven, χεὶρ Ἀβεσσαλώμ [LXX (LXX.2Ki.18.18)]; also ἀνέστακεν αὐτῷ χεῖρα, i.e. trophy,[LXX (LXX.1Ki.15.12.)]
VII.5 χεῖρες ἐλάτιναι, of oars, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Timotheus Lyricus “Persae” 7.)]
VII.6 catch of a trigger, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Automatopoetica” 13.9; χ. κατάγουσα τὴν τοξῖτιν 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 68.4, compare 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 78.2.)]
VII.7 instrument of torture, [LXX (LXX.4Mac.8.13.)]
VIII handful, κορώνῃ χεῖρα πρόσδοτε κριθέων [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Phoenix Iambographus 2.1.)]
IX ointment containing five ingredients, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus “fragment” 89, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Trall. 7.1)]. (Cf. Armenian jein (dzern), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Albinus Philosophus)] dore, Tocharian (A-dialect) tsar, (B-dialect) sar, all = hand.)
dual χεῖρε, χεροῖν, plural χεῖρες, χερῶν, χεῖρας, penultimate being regularly short, when the ultima is long; dative plural regularly χερσί (χειρσί occurs in codex Vat. of [LXX (LXX, as LXX.Judg.7.19, LXX.1Ch.5.10)], and late Inscrr. as [Refs 8th c.BC+ (“CIG” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” “Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum” 2811A b.10 (from Aphrodisias), 2942c (from Tralles): but Poets used the penultimate long or short in all cases, as the verse required, χερός, χερί, χέρα, χέρε, χέρες, χέρας (of which 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus uses only χερ; χέρα “hymnus ad Panem” 40); _genitive_ dual χειροῖν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 206 (Lyric poetry), 1394 (Lyric poetry), “IG” 22.1498.76; _genitive_ _plural_ χειρῶν [prev. work]31, common in Prose.—poetical forms, _dative_ _plural_ χείρεσι (ν) once in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.468, also 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 2.401, 5.469 (variant); χείρεσσι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.382, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).62, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 976 (Lyric poetry), 1297 (Lyric poetry))], and once in trimeter, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 756)]; χέρεσσι (ν) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 519, 747, 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 17.49; χερέεσσιν “AJA” 36.460 (from Galatia))]:—Doric dialect nominative χέρς [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Timocreon Lyricus 9)]; χήρ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophron Comicus in “PSI” 11.1214a3)] (also, ={δίψακος}, Ps.-[Refs 7th c.BC+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 3.11); _genitive_ χηρός 7th c.BC: Alcman Lyricus 32, “IG” 42(1).121.22 (Epid., 4th c.BC); _accusative_ _plural_ χῆρας [prev. work]96, _Aeolic dialect_ χέρρας 7th-6th c.BC: Alcaeus Lyricus “Supp.” 4.21, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 28.9.—On the accent and declension of these forms, see Hdn.Gr. 2.277, 748)]:— the hand, whether closed, παχεῖα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.376; βαρεῖα 11.235, +others)]; or open, flat, χερσὶ καταπρηνέσσι, χειρὶ καταπρηνεῖ,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (15.114, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.164, +others; εἰς τὴν χ. ἐγχεάμενοί τι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.3.9)]: frequently in plural where a single hand is meant, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.384, etc.)]; reversely, singular where more than one hand is spoken of, e.g. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.37, etc.)]; dual joined with plural, ἄμφω χεῖρας [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8.135; χεῖρε ἀμφοτέρας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.115.)]
2 hand and arm, arm [Refs 8th c.BC+ (compare (2nd c.AD: Rufus Medicus “περὶ ὀνομασίας” 11, 82, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 2.347), πῆχυν χειρὸς δεξιτερῆς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.166; κατὰ χεῖρα μέσην ἀγκῶνος ἔνερθε 11.252; χεῖρες ἀπ᾽ ὤμων ἀΐσσοντο 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 150; χ. εἰς ὤμους γυμναί 3rd c.AD(?): Longus Scriptor Eroticus 1.4)]; ἐν χερσὶ γυναικῶν πεσέειν into the arms, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.81, etc.)]: hence, words are added to denote the hand as distinct from the arm, ἄκρην οὔτασε χεῖρα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5.336; περὶ ἄκραις ταῖς χ. χειρῖδας ἔχουσι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.17, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Protagoras” 352a.)]
3 of the hand or paw of animals, ὅσα [ζῷα] χεῖρας ἔχει [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 1.4.14)]; πορεύεσθαι ἐπὶ χειρῶν go on all fours. [LXX (LXX.Lev.11.27)]; so of monkeys, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 502b3)]; of the fore-paws of the hyena, [Refs ([prev. author] “fragment” 369)]; of the bear, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.919a.)]
II Special usages:
II.1 to denote position, ποτέρας τῆς χερό; on which hand? [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 681; ἐπὶ δεξιὰ χειρός 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 6.19; ἐπ᾽ ἀριστερὰ χειρός 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.277; χειρὸς εἰς τὰ δεξιά 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 598; λαιᾶς χειρός 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 714 (but χείρ is often omitted with δεξιά, ἀριστερά,)] as we say the right, the left).
II.2 frequently in dative of all numbers with Verbs which imply the use of hands, λάβε χειρί, χερσὶν ἑλέσθαι, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.302, 10.501; χερσὶν ἀσπάζεσθαι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.35; προκαλίζεσθαι 18.20)]; χειρί, χεροῖν ψαῦσαι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1510, 1466)]: sometimes this dative is added pleonastic by way of emphasis, ὄνυξι συλλαβὼν χερί [Refs ([prev. author] “Aj.” 310.)]
II.3 genitive, by the hand, χειρὸς ἔχειν τινά [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.154; χειρὸς ἑλών 1.323, etc.)]; γέροντα δὲ χειρὸς ἀνίστη he raised him by the hand,[Refs 8th c.BC+ (24.515, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.319; χερὶ χειρὸς ἑλών 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.122; τινὰ χειρός ἑλκειν [prev. author] “N.” 11.32; ἀνέλκειν τινὰ τῆς χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 569 (_anapaest meter_).)]
II.4 the accusative is used when one takes the hand of a person, χεῖρα γέροντος ἑλών [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.361; χεῖρ᾽ ἕλε δεξιτερήν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.121)]; χεῖράς τ᾽ ἀλλήλων λαβέτην, in pledge of good faith, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.233; so ἔμβαλλε χ. δεξιὰν πρώτιστά μοι 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1181; also ἔμβαλλε χειρὸς πίστιν [prev. author] “Ph.” 813, compare “OC” 1632.)]
II.5 other uses of the accusative:
II.5.a in prayer or entreaty, χεῖρας ἀνασχεῖν [θεοῖς] [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 3.275, etc.; ποτὶ γούνασι χεῖρας βάλλειν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 6.310; ἀμφὶ.. Ἀρήτης βάλε γούνασι χεῖρας Ὀδυσσεύς 7.142; ἀμφὶ δὲ χεῖρας δειρῇ βάλλ᾽ Ὀδυσῆϊ 23.207; ἀμφί τινι χεῖρε β. 21.223; περίβαλε δὲ χέρας 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Thesmophoriazusae” 914, compare 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1559 (_anapaest meter_); χεῖρας προΐσχεσθαι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.58, 66; so also χεῖρας ἀείρων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.423, compare 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.130 (tmesis))]; χ. ἀνατείνειν (see. ἀνατείνω [Refs (1.1).)]
II.5.b τὰς χεῖρας αἴρειν to hold up hands in token of assent or choice, of persons voting, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 264; τὴν χ. αἴρειν 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 3.41; ὅτῳ δοκεῖ ταῦτα, ἀράτω τὴν χ. 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 5.6.33, compare 7.3.6; ἀνατεινάτω τὴν χ. [prev. work] 3.2.9, 33; χεῖρας ὀρεγνύς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.37; χεῖρ᾽ ὀρέγων εἰς οὐρανόν 15.371; χεῖρας ὀ. τινί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.257; πρός τινα 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.240; ποτὶ στόμα χεῖρ᾽ ὀρέγεσθαι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.506 (but χεῖρά τισι ὀ.)] to reach them one's hand in help, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.17); also χεῖρε ἑτάροισι πετάσσας 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.523, etc.; πιτνὰς εἰς ἐμὲ χεῖρας 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.392 (but χεῖρε πετάσσας _absolutely_, of one swimming, etc., 5.374, +others).)]
II.5.c [Ἰλίου] χεῖρα ἑὴν ὑπερέσχε held the hand over as a protector, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.420, etc.)]: less frequently τισι, [Refs (4.249, compare 5.433; χεῖρά θ᾽ ὕπερθεν ἔχεις “IG” 14.1003.10 (from Rome).)]
II.5.d in hostile sense, χεῖρας or χεῖρα ἐπιφέρειν τινί, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.89, 19.261, +others; χεῖρας ἐφιέναι τινί 1.567, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.254, +others; χεῖρας ἐπιβάλλειν τισί 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 3.2.8, etc.; χέρα τινὶ προσενεγκεῖν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 9.36; χεῖρας ἐπί τινι ἰάλλειν, see at {ἰάλλω} I.1.)]
II.5.e χεῖρας ἀπέχειν keep hands off, λοιμοῖο βαρείας χεῖρας ἀφέξει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.97 codices; κερτομίας δέ τοι.. καὶ χεῖρας ἀφέξω.. μνηστήρων 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.263; ἀθανάτων ἀπέχειν χέρας 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 350 (Lyric poetry); τὼ χεῖρε ἀπέχεται 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Symposium” 213d; παύειν χεῖράς τινος 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.294.)]
II.5.f χεῖρας ἐπιτιθέναι τινί, in token of consecration, [NT (NT.1Tim.5.22, etc.)]
II.6 with Preps.:
II.6.a ἀνὰ χεῖρας ἔχειν τινάς to be intimate with.., [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 21.6.5; αἱ ἀνὰ χεῖρά τινων ὁμιλίαι 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 1.64)]; τὰ ἀνὰ χεῖρα πράγματα the matters in hand, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.614b, etc. (also οἱ ἀνὰ χ. χρόνοι)] the current period, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (“PRyl.” 88.21 (2nd c.AD))]; τὰ ἀνὰ χ. what comes his way, Ps.-[Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Ptolemaeus Epigrammaticus “Centil.” 18)]; ἀνὰ χ. τῆς πύλης hard by.., [LXX (LXX.2Ki.15.2.)]
II.6.b ἀπὸ χειρὸς λογίσασθαι to reckon off-hand, roughly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 656 (_anapaest meter_), compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Hist.Conscr.” 29: but πότισον τὴν γῆν ἀπὸ χειρός)] by hand, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Zenon Papyri du Caire 155 (3rd c.BC).)]
II.6.c διὰ χερῶν ἔχειν, λαβεῖν, literally, to have or take between the hands, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 193, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 916)]; διὰ χειρὸς ἔχειν to hold in the hand, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1258 (_anapaest meter_), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 597 (_anapaest meter_))]; to have in hand, i. e. under control, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.76; διὰ χειρῶν ἔχειν τὴν πολιτείαν 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1308a27)]; τὰ τῶν ξυμμάχων keep under control, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.13)]: later, to have a work in hand, be engaged in it, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “Academicorum Index” p.69M. (χερός), 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Isocrate” 4; τὰ ὅπλα 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Coriolanus” 2, etc. (also διὰ χ. by direct payment, opposed to διὰ τῆς τραπέζης by banker's order, “BGU” 1156.8 (1st c.BC), etc.;compare διὰ χ. ἔσπευδε τὴν πρᾶσιν 2nd c.AD(?): Charito Scriptor Eroticus 1.12))]; of arms, διὰ χειρὸς εἶναι [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Anach.” 35)]; διὰ χ. ἔχειν, with participle, to be continually doing, [NT+1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.767c; διὰ χειρός τινος ποιεῖν τι LXX.Josh.17.4, +others, cf. NT.Act.7.25, +others)]
II.6.d ἐς χεῖρας λαβεῖν τι literally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1120, etc.)]; to take a matter in hand, undertake it, πρᾶγμ᾽ ἐς χέρας λαβόντ᾽ [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 1242; ἄγεσθαί τι ἐς χεῖρας 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.126, 4.79, etc.)]; δοῦναί τινι ἐς χέρας, εἰς χεῖρα, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1348, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.22; καταστῆσαι εἰς τὰς χ. τινος 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.28)]; of persons, ἵκεο χεῖρας ἐς ἁμάς thou hast fallen into our hands, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.448 (in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus also simply ὅ τι χεῖρας ἵκοιτο 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.331, compare 24.172); so εἰς χεῖρας ἐλθεῖν τινι 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 7.4.10, compare 2.4.15)]: generally, to have to do with any one, converse with him, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “An.” 1.2.26 (so ἐς χεῖρα γῇ ξυνῆψαν 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 429): most frequently ἐς χεῖρας ἐλθεῖν τισι)] to come to blows or close quarters with.., [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 680; ἀλλήλοις 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.44: _absolutely_, εἰς χ. ἐλθεῖν [prev. author] 4.96; ἐς χ. ἰέναι [prev. author] 2.3, 4.72, compare “PTeb.” 765.6 (2nd c.BC))]; συνιέναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 8.8.22)]; also ἐς χειρῶν νόμον (perhaps νομόν) ἀπικέσθαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.48)]; ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ (perhaps νομῷ) ἀπόλλυσθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 8.89, compare 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 1.5, “SIG” 167.37 (Mylasa, 4th c.BC), 4th c.AD: Heraclides Historicus “περὶ πολιτειῶν - fragment” 25, 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 1.34.5, 5.111.6)]; ἐν χειρὸς νόμῳ [LXX+4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Politica” 1285a10, 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 6.26; ἐν χειρῶν νομαῖς “SIG” 700.29 (Lete, 2nd c.BC), see reading in LXX.3Mac.1.5)]; ἐν χεροῖν δίκῃ conjecture in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“E.Ba.” 738; εἰς χεῖρας συμμεῖξαι τοῖς πολεμίοις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 2.1.11)]; also εἰς χεῖρας δέχεσθαί τινας to await their charge, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “An.” 4.3.31; ἐς χ. ὑπομεῖναί τινας 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.72.)]
II.6.e ἐκ χειρός by hand of man, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 27)]: from near at hand, at close range, ἐκ χειρὸς βάλλειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 3.3.15)]; ἀμύνασθαι[Refs 1st c.BC+ ([prev. work] 5.4.25; μάχεσθαι [prev. author] “HG” 7.2.14, compare 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.6; πληγὰς ἐκ χ. ἀναδέξασθαι 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus)] tim.4; οὐ μὴ σωθῇ ἐκ χ. σιδήρου [LXX (LXX.Job.20.24)]; ἡ ἐκ χ. δίκη lynch law, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 4.37; ἡ ἐκ χ. βία 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 9.4.6: _metaphorically_, ἡ ἐκ χ. θεωρία)] closerange reading, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Isocrate” 2)]; so of time, out of hand, off-hand, forthwith, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.41.7, +others)]
II.6.f δέπας μητρὶ ἐν χειρὶ τίθει [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.585, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.57, 15.120, +others (always so of a cup, hence ἐν χερσὶ τίθει δέπας,)] though found in most codices, was condemned by the critics in Il.[same place], [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.51, 15.130); πρεσβήϊον ἐν χερὶ θήσω 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 8.289; τόξον, ἔγχος ἔχων ἐν χειρί, 15.443, 17.604; σκῆπτρον δέ οἱ ἔμβαλε χειρί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.37; but ἐν.. χειρὶ σκῆπτρον ἔθηκεν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.568)]; of a gift, ἐν χερσὶ τίθει [Refs (1.441, 446)]; ἐν ταῖς χ. ἔχειν, literally, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 432d; τὰ ὅπλ᾽ ἐν ταῖς χ. ἔχων 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.8, etc. (_metaphorically_, ἔτι μεμνημένων ὑμῶν καὶ μόνον οὐκ ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν ἕκαστ᾽ ἐχόντων [prev. author] 18.226))]; but ἐν χερσὶν ἔχειν also, to have in hand, be engaged in, τὸν γάμον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.35; ἑορτήν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alexander” 13; τὴν περὶ Δημοσθένους πραγματείαν 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Thucydide” 1; ἐν χειρί τινα δίκην ἔχων 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 172e)]; ὁ ἐν χερσὶ πόλεμος the war in hand, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 8.87)]; περιτειχισμὸς ἐν χερσὶν ὤν[Refs 2nd c.AD+ ([prev. work] 21; ἡ ἐν χ. ζήτησις 2nd c.AD: Sextus Empiricus Philosophus “adversus Mathematicos” 11.208, etc.)]; frequently of fighting, ἐν χερσί hand to hand, ἐν χ. ἦν ἡ μάχη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.43; ἐν χ. ἀποκτεῖναι [prev. author] 3.66, compare 4.57, 96, etc.)]; ἐν χ. γίγνεσθαι τοῖς ἐναντίοις [Refs 8th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 5.72; ἐν χ. εἶναί τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 4.6.11; δίκη ἐν χερσί 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Opera et Dies” 192; ὁ ψόφος τῶν ὅπλων καὶ τῶν ἵππων ὁ φρυαγμὸς ἐν χερσὶν ἐδόκει εἶναι 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 19.31)]; ἡ ἐν χερσὶν [δυστυχία] [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cleomenes” 22)]: also in dual, τἀν χεροῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1345 (Lyric poetry))]; ἐν χειρί τινος by the hand of.., [LXX+NT (LXX.Josh.21.2, +others; ἐν χ. ἀγγέλου NT.Act.7.35 (variant).)]
II.6.g ἐπὶ χειρὸς ἔχειν on or in one's hand, [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Theognis Elegiacus 490)]; ἐπὶ χεῖράς τινων ἐκφέρουσι put into their hands, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.815b)]; also ἐπὶ χεῖρά τινος next to, [LXX (LXX.Neh.3.4.)]
II.6.h κατὰ χειρός, of washing the hands before meals, ὕδωρ κατὰ χειρός (i.e. φερέτω τις), [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Vespae” 1216, compare “Av.” 464 (_anapaest meter_), “fragment” 502 (Lyric poetry), 3rd c.BC: Philoxenus Epigrammaticus 1, 2nd c.AD: Athenaeus Epigrammaticus 9.408e)]; (without ὕδωρ) κατὰ χ. ἐδόθη [Refs 4th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 261.2, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Archedicus Comicus 2.3)]: proverbial of that which is easily come by, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Teleclides Comicus 1.2 (_anapaest meter_); πάντα μοι κατὰ χ. ἦν τὰ πράγματα)]at hand, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pherecrates Comicus 146.5)]; also κατὰ χειρῶν δοῦναι, χέειν, λαβεῖν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Philyllius Comicus 3, 4th c.BC: Antiphanes Comicus 287 (variant), 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus 470 (troch.), cf. Phot. see at {κατὰ χειρὸς ὕδωρ}: κατὰ χεῖρα)] in deed or act, κατὰ χ. γενναιότατοι [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 7.6)]; opposed to συνέσει, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Philopoemen” 7)]; κατὰ χεῖρά σου according to thy will, [LXX (LXX.Sir.25.26: but κατὰ χεῖρας [τῆς σοφίας])] by her side, [Refs ([prev. work] 14.25.)]
i μετὰ χερσὶν ἔχειν between, i.e. in, the hands, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.4, 15.717; [ἄλεισον] μετὰ χ. ἐνώμα 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.10: μετὰ χεῖρας ἔχειν)] to have in hand, be engaged in, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.16.β, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.138.)]
k λάβε παρὰ χεῖρα take in hand, [LXX (LXX.Tob.11.4)]; but τὸ πὰρ χειρός the work in hand, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus 13.10.)]
l πρὸ χειρῶν close before one, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 1279, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 1207 (assuming variant), “Rh.” 274)]; πρὸ χειρὸς εἶναι conjecture in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 69.5.)]
m πρὸς χειρός τινος by his hand, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 66 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]; πρὸς ἐμὴν χεῖρα at the signs given by my hand, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 148 (_anapaest meter_))]; πρὸς χεῖρα ὑποβορβορύζοντες on pressure, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “ἐπιδημίαι” 4.7.)]
n ὑπὸ χερσὶ ἁλοῦσα under, i.e. by, another's hands, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.374, etc.)]; ὑπὸ χεῖρα ποιεῖσθαι to bring under one's power, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Agesilaus” 1.22)]; οἱ ὑπὸ χ. persons in one's power, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 6.34)]; ὑπὸ τὴν χ. ἐλθεῖν to come into one's hand, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Herm.” 57, etc.)]; ὑπὸ χ. in hand, i.e. in stock, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 369b33)]; but also, at hand, i.e. at once, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.548e)]; τὰ ὑπὸ χ. [Refs 1st c.AD+ ([prev. work]56b, 1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 1.35)]; ὁ ὑπὸ χ. the attendant, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st c.AD: Dioscorides (Dioscurides) Medicus 5.75; παρέργως καὶ ὑπὸ χ.)]extempore, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Aratus” 3, etc.)]; also καθύπο χεῖρα κινῶν [τὰς οὐσίας], in Alchemy, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Pseudo-Democritus Alchemista p.51 5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus)]
III the hand often receives the attributes of the person using it, χ. μεγάλη, of Zeus, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.695 (χ. παγκρατής, of God, 2nd c.AD: Secundus Gnomologus “Sententiae - FPG” 3)]; χ. ὑπερμήκης, of the 'long arm' of the king, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.140.β᾽))]; θοὴ χ., of one throwing, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.306; ἀφνειά 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 7.1, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 458)]; εὐσεβεστέρα, εὐφιλής, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 141, “Ag.” 34)]; κάρβανος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 1061; γεραιά 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 143 (_anapaest meter_); πονηρά [prev. author] “Ion” 1316, etc.)]: to denote wealth or poverty, πλειοτέρῃ σὺν χ. [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.359; κενεὰς σὺν χ. ἔχοντες 10.42, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1280, etc.)]
III.2 it is represented as acting of itself, χεῖρες μαιμῶσιν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.77, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 50; χεὶρ ὁρᾷ τὸ δράσιμον 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 554; δήμου κρατοῦσα χ. [prev. author] “Supp.” 604 (uncertain reading): proverbial, ἁ δὲ χ. τὰν χ. νίζει 5th c.BC: Epicharmus Comicus 273; or simply, ἁ χ. τὰν χ. “Anthologia Graeca” 5.207 (1st c.BC: Meleager Epigrammaticus).)]
III.3 plural, in theurgy, name for spiritual powers, αἱ δημιουργικαὶ [τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος] δυνάμεις ἃς θεουργῶν παῖδες χεῖρας ἀποκαλοῦσιν [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD: Proclus Philosophus “in Platonis Cratylum commentaria” p.101)] P., compare [same work] in R.[Refs (2.252K.)]
IV to denote act or deed, opposed to mere words, in plural, ἔπεσιν καὶ χερσὶν ἀρήξειν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 1.77)]; μνῆμ᾽ Ἑλένης χειρῶν of her handiwork, her art, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.126 (so in _sing._, δώρημ᾽ ἐκείνῳ τἀνδρὶ τῆς ἐμῆς χ. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 603); χερσὶν ἢ λόγῳ [prev. author] “OT” 883 (Lyric poetry), compare “OC” 1297, etc.)]; τῇ χειρὶ χρᾶσθαι to use one's hands, i.with be active, stirring, opposed to ἀργὸς ἐπεστάναι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.78, compare 9.72)]; τὰς χ. προσφέρειν to apply force, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Memorabilia” 2.6.31: _sing._, βούλευμα μὲν τὸ Δῖον, Ἡφαίστου δὲ χείρ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 619)]; μιᾷ χειρί single-handed, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 21.219; χειρὶ καὶ ποδὶ καὶ πάσῃ δυνάμει 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 3.109, compare 2.115; χερσίν τε ποσίν τε 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 20.360, compare 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “O.” 10(11).62)], especially of using the hands in a fight, compare above [Refs (11.6d)], e, f; of deeds of violence, πρὶν χειρῶν γεύσασθαι before we try force, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.181)]; ἀδίκων χ. ἄρχειν to give the first blow, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 1.5.13, 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 4.2.1, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 4.11, etc.; ἀμυνόμενος ἄρχοντα χειρῶν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 869d: generally, χεῖρες)] violent measures, force, ἐπίσχετε θυμὸν ἐνιπῆς καὶ χειρῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 20.267; ὑπόδικος χερῶν 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 260 (Lyric poetry); χερσὶ πεποιθώς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 16.624, etc.; ἐν χειρῶν νόμῳ see above 11.6d)]; ὅπως θανάτοιο βαρείας χ. ἀλάλκοι, variant for{κῆρας}, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 21.548.)]
V a number, band, body of men, especially of soldiers, χεὶρ μεγάλη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.157; in _dative_, οὐ σὺν μεγάλῃ χ. [prev. author] 5.72; πολλῇ χ. 1.174, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 3.96, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Heraclidae” 337; pleonastic, χ. μεγάλῃ πλήθεος 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 7.20; δεδωμάτωμαι δ᾽ οὐδ᾽ ἐγὼ σμικρᾷ χερί 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 958)]; οἰκεία χείρ, for χεὶρ οἰκετῶν, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 629; σὺν πλήθει χερῶν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 123.)]
VI handwriting, τὴν ἑαυτοῦ χεῖρα ἀρνήσασθαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Hyperides Orator “Lyc.fragment” 5, compare “IG” 9(1).189 (from Phocis))]; τῇ ἐμῇ χ. Παύλου [NT (NT.1Cor.16.21, NT.Col.4.18)]: copy, counterpart of a document, [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (“SIG” 712.31 (Crete, 2nd c.BC))]; deed, instrument, ἡ χ. ἥδε κυρία ἔστω [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PRein.” 28.18 (2nd c.BC),compare “PCair.Zen.” 477 (3rd c.BC), etc.)]
VI.b handiwork of an artist or workman, γλαφυρὰ χ. [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus “epigram” 8.5, etc.; αἱ Ἐφεσίου χεῖρες 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 4.72, compare 6.66; σοφαὶ χέρες “APl.” 4.262; τὰς Φειδίου χ. 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 30.22.)]
VII of any implement resembling a hand:
VII.1 a kind of gauntlet, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 12.5, 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 1.135 (_plural_).)]
VII.2 χ. σιδηρᾶ grappling-iron, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.25, 7.62)]; also of an anchor, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (Anthologia Graeca 6.38 (1st c.AD: Philippus Epigrammaticus).)]
VII.3 axle-tree, [LXX (LXX.3Ki.7.18(32).)]
VII.4 in LXX, pillar or cairn, as it were a finger pointing to heaven, χεὶρ Ἀβεσσαλώμ [LXX (LXX.2Ki.18.18)]; also ἀνέστακεν αὐτῷ χεῖρα, i.e. trophy,[LXX (LXX.1Ki.15.12.)]
VII.5 χεῖρες ἐλάτιναι, of oars, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Timotheus Lyricus “Persae” 7.)]
VII.6 catch of a trigger, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Automatopoetica” 13.9; χ. κατάγουσα τὴν τοξῖτιν 3rd-2nd c.BC: Philo Mechanicus “(Belopoeica) Excerpte aus Philons Mechanik - Ath. Berl. Akad.” 68.4, compare 2nd-1st c.BC(?): Hero Mechanicus “Belopoeica” 78.2.)]
VII.7 instrument of torture, [LXX (LXX.4Mac.8.13.)]
VIII handful, κορώνῃ χεῖρα πρόσδοτε κριθέων [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Phoenix Iambographus 2.1.)]
IX ointment containing five ingredients, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus “fragment” 89, 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor Trall. 7.1)]. (Cf. Armenian jein (dzern), [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Albinus Philosophus)] dore, Tocharian (A-dialect) tsar, (B-dialect) sar, all = hand.)