κενόω (kenoo)

Where it lives

Philippians 1 · 6.26/10k
Philebus 11 · 6.24/10k
1 Corinthians 2 · 2.96/10k
2 Corinthians 1 · 2.23/10k
On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Romans 1 · 1.43/10k
Bacchae 1 · 1.33/10k
Timaeus 3 · 1.27/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k

Densest 12 of 21 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

κενόω · kenoō — LSJ

empty, empty of, to be emptied, made, left empty, the space continually left empty, will be left without, stripped

empty, πᾶσαν ἠπείρου πλάκα A. Pers. 718 (troch.); ναούς E. Ion l.c.: c. gen., empty of a thing, ἀνδρῶν τάνδε πόλιν κενῶσαι A. Supp. 660, cf. E. Rh. 914 (lyr.); χέρας [δώρων] Id. Med. l.c.; τινὰ τᾶς συοπλουτοσύνας Cerc. 4.13; opp. πληροῦν τινά τινος, Pl. l.c., cf. R. 560d:—Pass., to be emptied, made or left empty, S. OT 29; ἐς τὸ κενούμενον into the space continually left empty, Th. 2.76; οἰκίαι πολλαὶ ἐκενώθησαν ib. 51: c. gen., τούτων κενεώσεται . . αἰών will be left without them, Emp. l.c.; κε

2 make, empty by leaving, desert

make a place empty by leaving it, desert it, βωμοῦ ἐσχάραν E. Andr. 1138; λόχμην Id. Ba. l.c.:—Pass., κενωθεισῶν τῶν νεῶν Th. 8.57.

3 empty by depletion, carry off, evacuations

Medic., empty by depletion, opp. πληροῦν, Hp. Aph. 2.51, cf. Aret. CA 1.2, Gal. l.c.; τινα Phld. Lib. p.30 O.; carry off, αἷμα Luc. Ocyp. 93; ἐκ τοῦ σώματος χολήν Gal. Nat.Fac. 1.13:—Pass., τὰ κενούμενα evacuations, Id. 6.78 [Kühn 1.41?], Antyll. ap. Stob. 4.37.27.

4 empty out, pour away, make away with

empty out, pour away, φάρμακον Iamb.Bab. 7: metaph., πλοῦτον f.l. in Ph. 1.119:—Pass., τοῦ λαοῦ κενωθέντος D.S. 24.1; make away with, θανάτου βάρος Cypr. Fr. 1.6.

5 expend

expend, εἴς με κένωσον πᾶν βέλος AP 5.57 (Arch.).

6 waste away, shrivel

in Pass., waste away, shrivel, Thphr. HP 7.4.3, 9.14.3.

II make empty, make void, of no effect, to be, become

metaph., make empty, ἑαυτόν Ep.Phil. 2.7; make void or of no effect, καύχημα 1 Ep.Cor. 9.15; ὑπάρξεις Vett.Val. 90.7:—Pass., to be or become so, Ep.Rom. 4.14.

In the wild

κενώσας · kenōsas Aeschylus, Persians 718
κενώσαι · kenōsai Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 656–660
κενοῦσθαι · kenousthai Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.10 (DIORISIS sentence 979)
κενώσας · kenōsas Euripides, Bacchae 729–730
κενώσετε · kenōsete Euripides, Ion (DIORISIS sentence 299)
ἐκένωσεν · ekenōsen Euripides, Rhesus 1.910 (DIORISIS sentence 588)

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Where it came from

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