LogeionPerseus analysis of αἷμα:
αἷμα (blood): neut nom/voc/acc sg
LSJ entry
αἷμα
αἷμα,
ατος,
τό,
II. bloodshed, murder,
A. Ch. 520,
S. OT 101; ὅμαιμον αἷ. a kinsmanʼs murder,
A. Supp. 449; εἴργασται μητρῷον αἷ. E. Or. 285,
cf. 406; αἶ. πράττειν ib.1139;
αἷμα συγγενὲς κτείνας S. Fr. 799.3; αἷμα τραγοκτόνον shedding of goatʼs blood,
E. Ba. 139; ἐφʼ αἵματι φεύγειν to avoid trial for murder by going into exile, SIG 58
(Milet., V B.C.), D. 21.105;
αἷμα συγγενὲς φεύγων E. Supp. 148:
pl. in this sense, A. Ch. 66,
650,
freq. in E.,
never in S.; αἵματασύγγονα brothers’ corpses,
E. Ph. 1502:—concrete, νεακόνητον αἷ. keen-edged death,
i. e. a sword, S. El. 1394 (expl. by μάχαιρα, Hsch.).