The corpus record

χάλιξ

chalix · ὁ

small stone, pebble

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Where it lives

Job 2 · 1.5/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant — LSJ

small stone, pebble

small stone, pebble, in pl., Arist. Fr. 213; ἐστρωμένη χάλιξιν ὁδός Luc. Trag. 226.

2 gravel, rubble, concrete

freq. as collect. in sg., gravel, rubble, used in building, Th. 1.93, PCair.Zen. 760 (iii B. C.), PPetr. 3p.290 (iii B. C.), Plu. Cim. 13; τῇ χ. καταμείξαντες τὴν ἀμμοκονίαν, so as to make concrete, Str. 5.4.6: pl., Ar. Av. 839; χ. σιδηραῖ dub. sens. in IG 1(2).314.44.

In the wild

χάλικες · chalikes Septuaginta, Job 21
χαλίκων · chalikōn Septuaginta, Job 8
χάλιξ · chalix Thucydides, History 1.93.5 (DIORISIS sentence 590)

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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