The corpus record

μόλιβος

molibos · ὁ

lead

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Zacharias 2 · 4.15/10k
Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
Siracides 2 · 1.08/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Ezechiel 2 · 0.69/10k
Numeri 1 · 0.43/10k
Exodus 1 · 0.42/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

μόλῐβ-ος · molib-os — LSJ

lead

lead, once in Hom., μόλιβος ὣς ἐτράπετʼ αἰχμή Il. 11.237, cf. Call. Aet. 3.1.30 [Fr. 75.30 Pf.]: also fem., AP 9.723 (Antip. Sid.); also found in PTeb. 121.52 (i B.C., pl.), PLond. 3.1177.301 (ii A. D.), Ostr.Bodl. iii 310 (prob. iii A.D.), and codd. of Ph. Bel. 80.7, 90.9, Ael. NA 14.25, etc.

In the wild

μόλιβος · molibos Iliad 11.237
μόλιβος · molibos Septuaginta, Exodus 15
μόλιβος · molibos Septuaginta, Ezechiel 22
μολίβῳ · molibōi Septuaginta, Ezechiel 22
μόλιβος · molibos Septuaginta, Jeremias 6
μολίβῳ · molibōi Septuaginta, Job 19

6 of 12 attestations shown. Ask for more.

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.

Downloads

Word record (JSON)·Concordance (CSV)·Frequencies (CSV)·Cite (BibTeX)

CC BY 4.0 with receipt attribution — every file carries its license line. What is exportable

Ask the librarian

Ask about μόλιβος →