The corpus record

χῶμα

choma · τό

earth thrown up, bank, mound

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Where it lives

Habacuc 1 · 9.14/10k
Job 5 · 3.75/10k
Hecuba 2 · 2.79/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Critias 1 · 2.02/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Antigone 1 · 1.36/10k
Exodus 3 · 1.27/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
Histories 14 · 0.76/10k
Josue (cod. Vat.) 1 · 0.75/10k

Densest 12 of 18 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

χῶμα · chōma — LSJ

earth thrown up, bank, mound

earth thrown up, bank, mound, thrown up against the walls of cities to take them, αἵρεε τὰς πόλιας χώμασι Hdt. 1.162; χ. ἔχουν πρὸς τὴν πόλιν The. 2.75, cf. LXX Ez. 21.22(27), Hb. 1.10, OGI 90.24 (Rosetta, ii B. C., pl.).

2 dyke

dyke to hinder a river from overflowing, Hdt. 1.184: freq. in Pap., PPetr. 3pp. 125,341 (iii B. C.), etc.; βασιλικὸν χ. Wilcken Chr. 11 A 8 (ii B. C.); δημόσιον χ. POxy. 290.34 (i A. D.).

3 dam

dam, Hdt. 7.130.

4 mole, pier, jetty

mole or pier, carried out into the sea, jetty, Id. 8.97, D. 50.6, Arg. Id. 51, IG ΙΙ(2).199A 33 (Delos, iii B. C.), etc.

5 promontory, spit of sand

promontory, spit of sand, A. Supp. 870 (lyr.).

II sepulchral mound

sepulchral mound, Hdt. 1.93, 9.85, A. Ch. 723 (anap.), S. Ant. 1216, etc.; τάφων χώματα γαίας E. Supp. 53 (lyr.); χῶμα μὴ χοῦν ὑψηλότερον πέντε ἀνδρῶν ἔργον Pl. Lg. 958e.

III mass of soil

mass of soil in which roots are found, cj. in Thphr. HP 2.5.2.

IV heap of rubbish, ruin

heap of rubbish, ruin, LXX Jo. 8.28, Is. 25.2, Lib. Or. 61.13.

V dust

τὸ χ. τῆς γῆς the dust of the earth, LXX Ex. 8.16.

In the wild

χώματος · chōmatos Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 722–725
χῶμα · chōma Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 867–871
χώματος · chōmatos Aristotle, Politics 1274a (DIORISIS sentence 858)
χῶμʼ · chōmʼ Euripides, Hecuba 220 (DIORISIS sentence 85)
χώματος · chōmatos Euripides, Hecuba *talqu/bios (DIORISIS sentence 275)
χώματος · chōmatos Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 67)

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