σπήλαιον

Ancient Greek

From the same Pre-Greek source as σπέος (spéos) and σπῆλυγξ (spêlunx).[1]

σπήλαιον • (spḗlaion) n (genitive σπελαίου); second declension

grotto, cave, cavern
den, lair
- 70 CE – 110 CE, The Gospel of Matthew 21:13:
  καὶ λέγει αὐτοῖς, Γέγραπται ὁ οἶκός μου οἶκος προσευχῆς κληθήσεται· ὑμεῖς δὲ αὐτὸν ποιεῖτε σπήλαιον λῃστῶν.
  kaì légei autoîs, Gégraptai ho oîkós mou oîkos proseukhês klēthḗsetai; humeîs dè autòn poieîte spḗlaion lēistôn.
  And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. (KJV)

Second declension of τὸ σπήλαιον; τοῦ σπηλαίου (Attic)

Case / #	Singular	Dual	Plural
Nominative	τὸ σπήλαιον tò spḗlaion	τὼ σπηλαίω tṑ spēlaíō	τᾰ̀ σπήλαιᾰ tà spḗlaia
Genitive	τοῦ σπηλαίου toû spēlaíou	τοῖν σπηλαίοιν toîn spēlaíoin	τῶν σπηλαίων tôn spēlaíōn
Dative	τῷ σπηλαίῳ tôi spēlaíōi	τοῖν σπηλαίοιν toîn spēlaíoin	τοῖς σπηλαίοις toîs spēlaíois
Accusative	τὸ σπήλαιον tò spḗlaion	τὼ σπηλαίω tṑ spēlaíō	τᾰ̀ σπήλαιᾰ tà spḗlaia
Vocative	σπήλαιον spḗlaion	σπηλαίω spēlaíō	σπήλαιᾰ spḗlaia
Notes:	This table gives Attic inflectional endings. For declension in other dialects, see Appendix:Ancient Greek dialectal declension.

Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1382

σπήλαιον in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
“σπήλαιον”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, 2011
“σπήλαιον”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
G4693 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language‎, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- cave idem, page 119.
- den idem, page 210.
- lair idem, page 474.
- lurking idem, page 505.
- vault idem, page 945.

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