favourite slave
favourite slave, Men. 64.3, al., LXX Ge. 24.61, Ex. 2.5, al., Plu. Caes. 10, Aristaen. 1.22, Luc. Tox. 14. (Prob. Semitic; written by some Gramm. ἄβρα, cf. AB 322.)
The corpus record
ἅβρα
abra · ἡ
favourite slave
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Where it lives
- Esther 5 · 9.04/10k
- Judith 7 · 7.99/10k
- Exodus 2 · 0.84/10k
- Genesis 1 · 0.33/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- ἅβραις · habrais Septuaginta, Esther 2
- ἅβραι · habrai Septuaginta, Esther 4
- ἅβραι · habrai Septuaginta, Esther 4
- ἅβρας · habras Septuaginta, Esther 5
- ἅβρας · habras Septuaginta, Esther 5
- ἅβραι · habrai Septuaginta, Exodus 2
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Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.