The corpus record

δια-πρίω

diaprio

saw through, saw asunder

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Where it lives

Knights 1 · 1.13/10k
Acts 2 · 1.11/10k
Paralipomenon I 1 · 0.75/10k
Symposium 1 · 0.57/10k

What it meant

δια-πρίω · dia-priō — LSJ

saw through, saw asunder, split

saw through, saw asunder, Ar. Eq. 768, cj. in Aen.Tact. 4.2 (cf. διαπίμπρημι); split, κύμινον Jul. Caes. 312a:— Pass., Hp. VC 21; -πεπρισμένα [ξύλα] SIG 2587.304; διαπεπρισμένα ἡμίσεʼ . . ὡσπερεὶ τὰ σύμβολα Eub. 70: metaph., διεπρίοντο ταῖς καρδίαις Act.Ap. 7.54, cf. 5.33; also εἰς πλείω δ. τὴν Παλαιστίνην Lib. Ep. 334.

II gnash

δ. τοὺς ὀδόντας gnash the teeth, Luc. Cal. 24.

III

διαπρίεται· διαγοράζει, μαίνεται, Hsch.

In the wild

διαπρισθείην · diapristheiēn Aristophanes, Knights (DIORISIS sentence 559)
διεπρίοντο · dieprionto New Testament, Acts 5.33 (DIORISIS sentence 146)
διεπρίοντο · dieprionto New Testament, Acts 7.54 (DIORISIS sentence 229)
διαπεπρισμένοι · diapeprismenoi Plato, Symposium 193 (DIORISIS sentence 354)
διέπρισεν · dieprisen Septuaginta, Paralipomenon I 20

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