The corpus record

ἐμ-πλοκή

emploke · ἡ

braiding, scuffle, interweaving

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Where it lives

1 Peter 1 · 5.8/10k

What it meant

ἐμ-πλοκή · em-plokē — LSJ

braiding

braiding, κόμης Str. 17.3.7, cf. Nic.Dam. p.2 D., 1 Ep.Pet. 3.3.

2 scuffle

scuffle, PRyl. 124.28 (i A. D.), 150.12 (i A. D.).

II interweaving, entanglement, matted, to run into one another

interweaving, Epicur. Nat. 1420 (dub.); entanglement, Plu. Aet. phys. 2.916d (pl.); of the matted roots of trees, Ph.Byz. Mir. 1.5 (pl.); τόποις ἐμπλοκὰς ἔχειν, of districts, to run into one another, Str. 13.4.12.

III

Math., κατʼ ἐμπλοκήν, = ἐμπλέγδην, Iamb. in Nic. p.124P., al.

In the wild

ἐμπλοκῆς · emplokēs New Testament, 1 Peter 3.3 (DIORISIS sentence 48)

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

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