The corpus record

χελύνιον

chelunion · τό

lip, jaw, cranium

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Where it lives

Deuteronomium 1 · 0.45/10k

What it meant — LSJ

lip

lip, Mitteil. aus d. Papyrussamml. d. Nationalbibl. in Wien 1 (1932).160, Hippiatr. 1.

2 jaw

Dim. (in form only) of foreg.1.2, jaw, Hp. Ep. 23 (-ειον codd.), Hipparch. 2.3.35, J. AJ 4.4.4, Hippiatr. 34.

3 cranium

cranium, Hipparch. 3.2.8.

= χελώνιον I.1, Hsch.: pl., f.l. for χελώνια II, LXX De. 34.7 cod. Alex.

In the wild

χελύνια · chelynia Septuaginta, Deuteronomium 34

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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