1. σιᾶγών · siagōn — Beekes
The corpus record
σῐᾱγών
siagon
region of the jaw, cheek piece
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Where it lives
- Canticum 2 · 10.28/10k
- Judices (cod. Al.) 8 · 5.47/10k
- Michaeas 1 · 4.39/10k
- Lamentationes 1 · 4.29/10k
- Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
- Job 2 · 1.5/10k
- On the Art of Horsemanship 1 · 1.44/10k
- Matthew 1 · 0.56/10k
- Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
- Luke 1 · 0.52/10k
- Regnorum III 1 · 0.52/10k
- Paralipomenon II 1 · 0.51/10k
Densest 12 of 16 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. σιαγών · siagōn — Chantraine
3. σῐᾱγών · siagōn — LSJ
jaw-bone, jaw, Hp. Epid. 3.17.βʹ, S. Fr. 112, Ar. Fr. 287, PCair.Zen. 76.12 (iii B.C.), LXX Jd. 15.14, al.; of an ox, Cratin. 163; of a camel, prob. in PLond. 3.909 (a). 7 (ii A.D.); κινεῖται δὲ τοῖς . . ζῴοις ἅπασιν ἡ κάτωθεν σ., κτλ., Arist. HA 516a24, cf. 492b22; cheek, Cerc. 5.6, Ev.Matt. 5.39:—written συαγών, BGU 100.5 (ii A.D.), cf. Ath. 3.94f; also σεαγών, BGU 153.17, 35 (ii A.D.), Sammelb. 5167.11.
In the wild
- σιαγόνα · siagona New Testament, Luke 6.29 (DIORISIS sentence 268)
- σιαγόνα · siagona New Testament, Matthew 5.39 (DIORISIS sentence 132)
- σιαγόνας · siagonas Plato, Timaeus 75 (DIORISIS sentence 711)
- σιαγόνες · siagones Septuaginta, Canticum 1
- σιαγόνες · siagones Septuaginta, Canticum 5
- σιαγόνας · siagonas Septuaginta, Ezechiel 29
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. σῐᾱγών (scan p. 1377; entry #5491). Root candidates: *s’ag-.
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. σῐᾱγών (scan p. 1020; entry #7204).
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