The corpus record

βολίς

bolis · ἡ

missile, javelin

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Where it lives

Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
Canticum 1 · 5.14/10k
Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
Zacharias 1 · 2.07/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Numeri 2 · 0.87/10k
Esdras II 1 · 0.84/10k
Josue (cod. Vat.) 1 · 0.75/10k
Jeremias 2 · 0.72/10k
Regnorum I 1 · 0.54/10k
Exodus 1 · 0.42/10k
Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k

Densest 12 of 13 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

1. βολίς · bolis — LSJ

missile, javelin

missile, javelin, Plu. Demetr. 3.

2 sounding-lead

sounding-lead, Sch. Il. 24.80.

3 flashes

ἀστραπῶν βολίδες flashes of lightning, LXX Wi. 5.21; ἀστραπὴ βολίς (sic) ib. Za. 9.14.

4 cast of the dice

cast of the dice, AP 9.767 (Agath.).

b die

die, ib. 768 (Id.).

2. βωλίς · bōlis — LSJ

cake

cake used in sacrifices, Hsch.

In the wild

βολίδες · bolides Septuaginta, Canticum 4
βολίδα · bolida Septuaginta, Esdras II 14
βολίδι · bolidi Septuaginta, Exodus 19
βολίδας · bolidas Septuaginta, Ezechiel 5
βολίδες · bolides Septuaginta, Habacuc 3
βολὶς · bolis Septuaginta, Jeremias 27

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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.

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