The corpus record

νεφρ-ός

nephros · ὁ

kidneys

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Where it lives

Leviticus 14 · 7.48/10k
Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
Odae 1 · 2.46/10k
Frogs 2 · 2.2/10k
On the Sacred Disease 1 · 2.18/10k
Psalmi 5 · 1.46/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Jeremias 4 · 1.44/10k
Revelation 1 · 1.01/10k
Exodus 2 · 0.84/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Machabaeorum I 1 · 0.57/10k

Densest 12 of 14 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

νεφρ-ός · nephr-os — LSJ

kidneys

kidneys, Diog.Apoll. 6, Hp. Aph. 4.78, Pl. Ti. 91a, etc.: in dual, Ar. Ra. 475: rarely in sg., Id. Lys. 962, Euphro 1.25: euphem. for ὄρχεις, Philippid. 5.4: metaph., LXX Ps. 15(16).7. (Cf. OHG. nioro ‘kidney’, Praenest. nefrones, Lanuv. nebrundines ‘kidneys’, ‘testicles’.)

In the wild

νεφρὼ · nephrō Aristophanes, Frogs 1280
νεφρὼ · nephrō Aristophanes, Frogs 475–478
νεφρὸν · nephron Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease 3 (DIORISIS sentence 57)
νεφροὺς · nephrous New Testament, Revelation 2.23 (DIORISIS sentence 47)
νεφροὺς · nephrous Plato, Timaeus 91 (DIORISIS sentence 883)
νεφρῶν · nephrōn Septuaginta, Deuteronomium 32

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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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