The corpus record

ὀκν-ηρός

okneros

shrinking, timid

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Where it lives

Proverbia 12 · 10.8/10k
Philippians 1 · 6.26/10k
Siracides 3 · 1.63/10k
Romans 1 · 1.43/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Matthew 1 · 0.56/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 1 · 0.18/10k
Anabasis 1 · 0.18/10k
History 2 · 0.13/10k
Cyropaedia 1 · 0.13/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

ὀκν-ηρός · okn-ēros — LSJ

shrinking, timid, reluctantly

shrinking, timid, ἐλπίδες -ότεραι Pi. N. 11.22 ; ἀσθενέας καὶ ὀ. Hp. Acut. 28 ; -ότερος ἐς τὴν πρᾶξιν Antipho 2.3.5 ; ἐς τὰ πολεμικὰ -ότεροι Th. 4.55, cf. 1.142 ; esp. from fear, opp. τολμηρός, D. 25.24 ; τὸ θῆλυ -ότερον Arist. HA 608b13. Adv. -ρῶς reluctantly, X. An. 7.1.7 ; ὀ. διακεῖσθαι D. 10.28 : Comp. -ότερον X. Cyr. 1.4.6.

2 idle, sluggish

idle, sluggish, Hierocl. Facet. 211, al.

II causing fear, vexatious, troublesome

of things, causing fear, vexatious, troublesome, ἡμῖν μὲν . . ταῦτʼ ὀκνηρά S. OT 834.

In the wild

ὀκνηροί · oknēroi Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1125a (DIORISIS sentence 1352)
ὀκνηρῶς · oknērōs Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 5589)
ὀκνηρέ · oknēre New Testament, Matthew 25.26 (DIORISIS sentence 1077)
ὀκνηρόν · oknēron New Testament, Philippians 3.1 (DIORISIS sentence 38)
ὀκνηροί · oknēroi New Testament, Romans 12.10 (DIORISIS sentence 362)
ὀκνηροὶ · oknēroi Septuaginta, Proverbia 11 (DIORISIS sentence 169)

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