1. φάραγξ · pharanx — Beekes
The corpus record
φάραγξ
pharagx
gully, chasm, deep trench, abyss
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Where it lives
- Susanna (LXX) 1 · 13.09/10k
- Josue (cod. Vat.) 16 · 12.03/10k
- Isaias 18 · 6.85/10k
- Prometheus Bound 4 · 6.8/10k
- Judith 5 · 5.71/10k
- Deuteronomium 10 · 4.47/10k
- Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
- Zacharias 2 · 4.15/10k
- Baruch 1 · 3.96/10k
- Ezechiel 9 · 3.11/10k
- Numeri 4 · 1.73/10k
- Esdras II 2 · 1.69/10k
Densest 12 of 28 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. φάραγξ · pharanx — Chantraine
3. φάραγξ · pharanx — Frisk
4. φάραγξ · pharanx — LSJ
cleft, chasm, esp. in a mountain side, ravine, gully, Alcm. 60.1 (pl.); φ. πρὸς δυσχειμέρῳ A. Pr. 15, cf. 142 (anap.), al., E. IT 277, X. HG 7.2.13, Thphr. HP 9.5.2 (pl.), Schwyzer 289.161 (Priene, ii B. C.), etc.; πᾶσα φ. πληρωθήσεται LXX Is. 40.4; πάντας . . ἐς φάραγγα ἐσέβαλον Th. 2.67; ἐν πύλαισι γὰρ σταθεὶς φάραγγος of the cave, E. Cyc. 668; φάραγγα δακτύλου πιάσματι σύρει, of shaping a roll before it is baked, Eub. 75.11:—metaph., of Cleon, φάραγγα καὶ Χάρυβδιν ἁρπαγῆς Ar. Eq. 248 (troch.)
metaph., of the anus, Sotad. 2.2.
In the wild
- φάραγγα · pharanga Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1014–1019
- φάραγγος · pharangos Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 136–143
- φάραγγι · pharangi Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 14–15
- φάραγγί · pharangi Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 618
- φάραγγα · pharanga Aristotle, Metaphysics book 4 (DIORISIS sentence 897)
- φάραγγα · pharanga Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. φάραγξ (scan p. 1604; entry #6319).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. φάραγξ (scan pp. 1196-1197; entry #8351).
- Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. φάραγξ (scan pp. 1963-1964; entry #5886).