The corpus record

ἐκπετ-άννῡμι

ekpetannumi

spread out

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Where it lives

Nahum 1 · 10.83/10k
Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
Psalmi Salomonis 1 · 2.1/10k
Romans 1 · 1.43/10k
Heracles 1 · 1.28/10k
Machabaeorum I 2 · 1.15/10k
Siracides 2 · 1.08/10k
Ezechiel 3 · 1.04/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Exodus 2 · 0.84/10k
Isaias 2 · 0.76/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

ἐκπετ-άννῡμι · ekpet-annymi — LSJ

spread out, scattered, to the winds

spread out, of a sail, E. IT 1135 (lyr.); πώγωνα Luc. Tim. 54; χεῖρας LXX Is. 65.2; of wings, AP 5.178.10 (Mel.); τὰ ὦτα ἐξεπετάννυτο ὥσπερ σκιάδειον Ar. Eq. 1348; of a net, τὸ δὲ δίκτυον ἐκπεπέτασται Orac. ap. Hdt. 1.62; στέφος ἐξεπέτασσε scattered it to the winds, Bion 1.88.

2 wholly given up to, wide open, gaping

metaph., ἐπὶ κῶμον ἐκπετασθείς wholly given up to the revel, E. Cyc. 497 (lyr.): pf. part. Pass. ἐκπεπταμένος wide open, κοῖλα καὶ ἐ. Hp. VM 22; of gaping wounds, Id. Off. 11; ἐ. τοῖς βλεφάροις Ael. NA 2.12.

In the wild

ἐκπετάσουσιν · ekpetasousin Euripides, Heracles 888–889
ἐκπεπέτασται · ekpepetastai Herodotus, Histories 1.62.4 (DIORISIS sentence 406)
ἐξεπέτασα · exepetasa New Testament, Romans 10.20 (DIORISIS sentence 301)
ἐκπετάσω · ekpetasō Septuaginta, Exodus 9
ἐξεπέτασεν · exepetasen Septuaginta, Exodus 9
ἐκπετάσω · ekpetasō Septuaginta, Ezechiel 12

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Where it came from

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