ἱστός

histosNoun (Masculine)G7733

a mast

Full Lexicon Entry

1.anything set upright
2.a ship's mast, *ἱστὸν στῆσαι *or *στήσασθαι *to step the mast, (Homer):—; a rod, pole, (Herdotus Historicus)
3.the beam of the loom, which stood upright, instead of lying horizontal as in our looms, (Homer); *ἱστὸν στήσασθαι *to set up the beam and so begin a web, (Hesiod); *ἱστὸν ἐποίχεσθαι *to traverse the loom, because the weaver was obliged to walk to and fro, (Homer)
4.the warp that was fixed to the beam, the web, (Homer)

Grammar

Part of Speech Noun (Masculine)

Morphology G:N-M

DescriptionGreek Noun, Masculine

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