The corpus record

σκιάω

skiao

overshadow, make shady

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Where it lives

Baruch 1 · 3.96/10k
Psalmi Salomonis 1 · 2.1/10k
Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
Odyssey 7 · 0.81/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Regnorum II 1 · 0.62/10k
Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k
Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

σκῐάω · skiaō — LSJ

overshadow, make shady, to be shaded, dark

= σκιάζω, overshadow, make shady, Λῆμνον . . ἀκροτάτῃ κορυφῇ σκιάει A.R. 1.604, cf. Arat. 864, Nic. Th. 30:—Pass., to be shaded or dark, δύσετό τʼ ἠέλιος σκιόωντό τε πᾶσαι ἀγυιαί (Ep. 3 pl. impf.) Od. 2.388, al., cf. Arat. 600.

In the wild

ἐσκίασαν · eskiasan Theogony 713–720
σκιάσῃ · skiasēi Iliad 21.232
σκιόωντό · skioōnto Odyssey 11.12
σκιόωντό · skioōnto Odyssey 15.185
σκιόωντό · skioōnto Odyssey 15.296
σκιόωντό · skioōnto Odyssey 15.471

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Where it came from

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