The corpus record

ἄλειφαρ

aleiphar · τό

unguent, anointing-oil, oil, fat

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Where it lives

Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Odyssey 4 · 0.46/10k
Iliad 2 · 0.18/10k
Histories 2 · 0.11/10k

What it meant

ἄλειφαρ · aleiphar — LSJ

unguent, anointing-oil, oil, fat, oil

unguent, anointing-oil, oil, fat, used in funeral sacrifices, Il. 23.170, Od. 3.408, etc.; ἄλειφαρ ἀπὸ κέδρου, ἀπὸ σιλλικυπρίων, oil of cedar, etc., Hdt. 2.87, 94; ἄ. ῥόδινον Hp. Mul. 1.74.

II pitch, resin

pitch or resin, to seal wine-jars, Theoc. 7.147.—Cf. foreg.

In the wild

ἄλειφά · aleipha Aeschylus, Agamemnon 322–323
ἀλείφατος · aleiphatos Herodotus, Histories 2.87.2 (DIORISIS sentence 2139)
ἀλείφατι · aleiphati Herodotus, Histories 2.94.1 (DIORISIS sentence 2192)
ἄλειφαρ · aleiphar Theogony 553
ἀλείφατος · aleiphatos Iliad 18.351
ἀλείφατος · aleiphatos Iliad 23.170

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