The corpus record

καινίζω

kainizo

make new, strange, has

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Where it lives

Sophonias 1 · 8.45/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Trojan Women 1 · 1.41/10k
Trachiniae 1 · 1.38/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Machabaeorum I 1 · 0.57/10k
Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k

What it meant

καινίζω · kainizō — LSJ

make new, strange, has, new, strange, offer new, strange, devised a new, strange, innovate, use for the first time, handsel, try on, new, handseled, first to feel

make new or strange, but usu. in deriv. senses, καί τι καινίζει στέγη the house has something new, strange about it, S. Tr. 867; κ. εὐχάς offer new, strange prayers, E. Tr. 889; ἀμφίβληστρον ὡς ἐκαίνισαν (corr. Blomf. for ᾧ σʼ ἐκαίνισαν) how they devised a new, strange net, A. Ch. 492; ὅστις τόνδʼ ἐκαίνισεν λόγον E. Fr. 598 ( = Critias 21 D.); so later, innovate, καθολικόν τι καινίζειν OGI 669.47:—Pass., ib. 62 (Egypt, i A. D.), Just. Nov. 7.12 Ep.; πολλὰ τῷ βίῳ κ. Vett.Val. 270.27; in Poets, es

In the wild

καίνισον · kainison Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1070–1071
ἐκαίνισαν · ekainisan Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 492
ἐκαίνισας · ekainisas Euripides, Trojan Women (DIORISIS sentence 454)
καινιοῦσιν · kainiousin Septuaginta, Isaias 61
καινίζειν · kainizein Septuaginta, Machabaeorum I 10
ἐκαίνιζεν · ekainizen Septuaginta, Machabaeorum II 4

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