The corpus record

ἐκ-ζέω

ekzeo

boil out, over : break out, bred

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Where it lives

Seven Against Thebes 1 · 1.99/10k
Regnorum I 2 · 1.08/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Exodus 1 · 0.42/10k
Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
Genesis 1 · 0.33/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

ἐκ-ζέω · ek-zeō — LSJ

boil out, over : break out

boil out or over : break out, in disease, Arist. Pr. 861b10 ; ὅταν ἐκζέῃ τὸ αἷμα Ant.Lib. 19.2 : metaph., ἐξέζεσεν γὰρ Οἰδίπου κατεύγματα A. Th. 709.

2 bred

c. gen., ζῶσα εὐλέων ἐξέζεσε bred worms, Hdt. 4.205 : c. dat., ἐκζεῖν φθειρσί D.L. 4.4 : c. acc., σκώληκας LXX Ex. 16.20 ; of a country, ἐ. μύας ib. 1 Ki. 6.1.

3 ferment

ferment, Dsc. 5.7.

II to be boiled to a decoction

Pass., to be boiled to a decoction, Aret. CD 2.5.

In the wild

ἐξέζεσεν · exezesen Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes 709
ἐκζέσαι · ekzesai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 4.1 (DIORISIS sentence 3082)
ἐξέζεσε · exezese Herodotus, Histories 4.205.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5371)
ἐξέζεσεν · exezesen Septuaginta, Exodus 16
ἐκζεόντων · ekzeontōn Septuaginta, Ezechiel 47
ἐκζέσῃς · ekzesēis Septuaginta, Genesis 49

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Where it came from

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