χείρ
χείρ, ἡ, χειρός, χειρί, χεῖρα, dual χεῖρε, χεροῖν, pl. χεῖρες, χερῶν, χεῖρας, penult. being regularly short, when the ult. is long; dat. pl. regularly χερσί ( χειρσί occurs in cod.Vat. of LXX, as Jd. 7.19, 1 Ch. 5.10, and late Inscrr. as CIG 2811 b.10 ( Aphrodisias), 2942c ( Tralles): but Poets used the penult. long or short in all cases, as the verse required, χερός, χερί, χέρα, χέρε, χέρες, χέρας (of which Hom. uses only χερί; χέρα h.Pan. 40); gen. dual χειροῖν S. El. 206 (lyr.), 1394 (lyr.), IG 2(2).1498.76; gen. pl. χειρῶν ib. 31, common in Prose.—Poet. forms, dat. pl. χείρεσι ( ν) once in Hom., Il. 20.468, also Q.S. 2.401, 5.469 (v.l.); χείρεσσι Il. 12.382, Pi. O. 10(11).62, S. Ant. 976 (lyr.), 1297 (lyr.), and once in trim., E. Alc. 756; χέρεσσι ( ν) Hes. Th. 519, 747, B. 17.49; χερέεσσιν AJA 36.460 ( Galatia):— Dor. nom. χέρς Timocr. 9; χήρ Sophr. in PSI 11.1214a3 (also, = δίψακος, Ps.- Dsc. 3.11); gen. χηρός Alcm. 32, IG 42(1).121.22 ( Epid., iv B. C.); acc. pl. χῆρας ib. 96, Aeol. χέρρας Alc. Supp. 4.21, Theoc. 28.9.—On the accent and declension of these forms, v. Hdn.Gr. 2.277, 748:—