The corpus record

ὁδηγ-ός

odegos · ὁ

guide, pilot

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Where it lives

Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
Matthew 3 · 1.67/10k
Romans 1 · 1.43/10k
Machabaeorum II 1 · 0.87/10k
Esdras II 1 · 0.84/10k
Machabaeorum I 1 · 0.57/10k
Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
Psalmi 1 · 0.29/10k
Discourses 2 · 0.27/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

guide, pilot

guide, Plb. 5.5.15, Plu. Alex. 27 ; of a goddess, Paus. 2.11.2 ; part of a dirigible χελώνη, Ath.Mech. 34.6 ; ταῖς Ἀριστοτελείοις τέχναις ὁδηγοῖς χρησάμενος D.H. Amm. 1.12, cf. Phld. Lib. p.20 O. : as Adj., ὁδηγὰ πλοῖα pilot-boats, Sammelb. 7173.16 (ii A. D.).

In the wild

ὁδηγὸν · hodēgon Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 6.1 (DIORISIS sentence 4847)
ὁδηγός · hodēgos Epictetus, Discourses 2.12 (DIORISIS sentence 2483)
ὁδηγόν · hodēgon Epictetus, Discourses 2.7 (DIORISIS sentence 2196)
ὁδηγοῦ · hodēgou New Testament, Acts 1.15 (DIORISIS sentence 13)
ὁδηγοί · hodēgoi New Testament, Matthew 15.14 (DIORISIS sentence 620)
ὁδηγοὶ · hodēgoi New Testament, Matthew 23.16 (DIORISIS sentence 973)

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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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