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ἐμ-φράσσω

emphrasso

bar a passage, stop up, block up

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Where it lives

Zacharias 3 · 6.22/10k
Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
Esther 1 · 1.81/10k
Paralipomenon II 3 · 1.52/10k
Regnorum IV 2 · 1.16/10k
Machabaeorum I 2 · 1.15/10k
Judith 1 · 1.14/10k
On Hunting 1 · 1.1/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Genesis 2 · 0.67/10k

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

What it meant

ἐμ-φράσσω · em-phrassō — LSJ

bar a passage, stop up, block up

bar a passage, stop up, block up, τὸ μεταξύ Th. 7.34; τοὺς ἔσπλους Id. 4.8; ἐ. συγκλείουσά τε Pl. Ti. 71c; ἐ. τὸ στόμα D. 19.208; ἐ. τὰς ὁδοὺς τῶν ἀδικημάτων Lycurg. 124.

2 bar the passage of, stop

bar the passage of, stop, τὰς κατὰ σοῦ τιμωρίας Aeschin. 3.223; πᾶσαν παρείσδυσιν Epicur. Sent. Vat. 47 ( = Mctrod.49); τὰς βοηθείας D.S. 14.56; τὴν περὶ τὰ αἰσθητήρια ἀκρίβειαν Ph. 1.246; τὴν φωνήν Plu. Exil. 2.606d.

Med. in act. sense, Nic. Al. 191.

II stuff in

stuff in, φύλλα εἰς τὰς ὀπάς (v.l. φύλλοις τὰς ὀ.) Gp. 13.5.3; τινί τι v.l. in Nic. Th. 79 (Med.).

In the wild

ἐμφράττει · emphrattei Demosthenes, On the False Embassy Concl.208 (DIORISIS sentence 713)
ἐμφράττουσα · emphrattousa Plato, Timaeus 71 (DIORISIS sentence 665)
ἐμφράξαι · emphraxai Septuaginta, Esther 4
ἐνέφραξαν · enephraxan Septuaginta, Genesis 26
ἐνέφραξαν · enephraxan Septuaginta, Genesis 26
ἐμφράξουσι · emphraxousi Septuaginta, Isaias 22

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Where it came from

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