The corpus record

ἐκ-τίλλω

ektillo

pluck out, pluck, strip bare, strip the leaves off

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Where it lives

Ecclesiastes 1 · 2.21/10k
Jeremias 3 · 1.08/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Discourses 1 · 0.13/10k

What it meant

ἐκ-τίλλω · ek-tillō — LSJ

pluck out

pluck out, τρίχας Arist. HA 603b22; πτερόν ib. 519a27 (Pass.); of a person, κόμην ἐκτετιλμένος Anacr. 21.11.

II pluck, strip bare

pluck, strip bare, τὴν τράμιν Hippon. 84; τὴν ῥοδωνιάν D. 53.16.

2 strip the leaves off

strip the leaves off, ὀρίγανον, κρόμμυον, Arist. Mir. 831a30, Pr. 924a32.

In the wild

ἐκτίλωμεν · ektilōmen Epictetus, Discourses 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3843)
ἐκτῖλαι · ektilai Septuaginta, Ecclesiastes 3
ἐκτίλω · ektilō Septuaginta, Jeremias 24
ἐκτίλω · ektilō Septuaginta, Jeremias 49
ἐκτίλλω · ektillō Septuaginta, Jeremias 51
ἐκτίλαι · ektilai Septuaginta, Psalmi 51

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Where it came from

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