shoulder

Greek Noun Male

ὦμος, οὐ, ὁ, [in LXX chiefly for שְׁכֶם, כָּתֵף;] the shoulder: Mat.23:4, Luk.15:5. (AS)

shoulder

Greek Noun Male

ὦμος, ὁ: (see. entry near the end):— the shoulder with the upper arm (ὠλένη being the lower), ξίφεϊ κληῗδα παρ᾽ ὦμον πλῆξ᾽, ἀπὸ δ᾽ αὐχένος ὦμον ἐέργαθεν ἠδ᾽ ἀπὸ νώτου [Refs 8th c.BC+]; κατ᾽ ὤμου δεῖρον [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὤμοις or ἐπ᾽ ὤμοις φέρειν, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὤμοισι τοῖσι ἐμοῖσι 'by the strength of mine arms', [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀποστρέψαι τὸν ὦ. to dislocate it, [Refs 5th c.BC+] b) the shoulder is sometimes more exactly specified as πρυμνότατος or πρυμνὸς ὦμος, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; sometimes opposed to χείρ (the arm), χεῖρες ὤμων. ἐπαΐσσονται [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τοὺς ὤμους ἀποταμόντες σὺν τῇσι χερσί (arms) [Refs 5th c.BC+] 2) also of animals. as of a horse, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a lion, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of a dog, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of crabs, [Refs]; of birds, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; of ants, [Refs] 3) the shoulder, in a dress, ἐπὶ τῶν ὤμων τῆς ἐπωμίδος [LXX+4th c.BC+] II) metaphorically of the parts below the top or head of any thing, especially of the fork of a vine (compare ὠμοχάραξ), [Refs]; of the womb, Heroph. cited in [Refs 2nd c.AD+]. (Cf. Latin umerus (from *omesos), Gothic ams (stem amsa-), Sanskrit áṃsas, also Aeolic dialect ἐπ-ομμάδιος, and (non-Greek) ἀμέσω [Refs 5th c.AD+]

Greek

Noun Masculine

the shoulder (as that on which burdens are borne); shoulder; perhaps from the alternate of g5342 (φέρω)