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ῥᾰφ-ή

raphe · ἡ

seam, suture, stitching, sewing

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Where it lives

Suppliants 1 · 1.42/10k
Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
Timaeus 1 · 0.42/10k
Odyssey 1 · 0.12/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

1. ῥᾰφ-ή · rhaph-ē

seam

seam, ἱμάντων Od. 22.186; [χιτῶνος] Plu. Cleom. 37.

2 suture

suture of the skull, κεφαλὴ οὐκ ἔχουσα ῥαφήν Hdt. 9.83, cf. Hp. VC 1 (pl.), Pl. Ti. 76a, Arist. HA 491b2, 516a15; also of the heart and other parts, Id. PA 667a7, 677b19; ῥαφαὶ ὀστέων E. Ph. 1159, Supp. 503.

II stitching, sewing, that had been sewn up

stitching, sewing, τρήσει καὶ ῥαφῇ χρωμένη σύνθεσις Pl. Plt. 280c; αἱ ῥ. τοῦ τραύματος, of a wound that had been sewn up, D.C. 43.11.

2. ῥάφη · rhaphē

a large kind of radish

a large kind of radish, Trypho ap. Hsch., dub. in Epich. 204.

In the wild

ῥαφὰς · rhaphas Euripides, Phoenissae *)/aggelos (DIORISIS sentence 677)
ῥαφάς · rhaphas Euripides, Suppliants *kh=ruc.500 (DIORISIS sentence 281)
ῥαφὴν · rhaphēn Herodotus, Histories 9.83.2 (DIORISIS sentence 9866)
ῥαφαὶ · rhaphai Odyssey 22.186
ῥαφὰς · rhaphas Plato, Timaeus 76 (DIORISIS sentence 718)

Where it came from

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