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τειχίζω

teichizo

build a wall

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Where it lives

  • History 61 · 4.08/10k
  • Osee 1 · 2.65/10k
  • Hellenica 16 · 2.43/10k
  • Judith 2 · 2.28/10k
  • Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
  • Athenian Constitution 2 · 1.23/10k
  • Numeri 2 · 0.87/10k
  • Cyropaedia 6 · 0.76/10k
  • Ezechiel 2 · 0.69/10k
  • Regnorum I 1 · 0.54/10k
  • Leviticus 1 · 0.53/10k
  • Paralipomenon II 1 · 0.51/10k

Densest 12 of 17 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant

τειχ-ίζω · teich-izō — LSJ

build a wall, build, they built them, to be built

build a wall, Ar. Av. 838, Th. 1.64, etc.: c. acc. cogn., τ. μακρὰ τείχη build them, Id. 5.82:—Med., τεῖχος ἐτειχίσσαντο they built them a wall, Il. 7.449, cf. Th. 3.105, And. 3.38 (ἐτειχίσαμεν codd.); ἔρυμα τῷ στρατοπέδῳ ἐτειχίσαντο Th. 1.11:—Pass., to be built, πύργος τετείχισται Pi. I. 5(4).44; ὕμνων θησαυρὸς τετείχισται Id. P. 6.9.

2 form a, wall

form a wall, τῇ τῶν ἀσπίδων προβολῇ ὥσπερ τειχίσαντες Hdn. 6.5.10.

II wall, fortify, fortified parts, stood enclosed

trans., wall, fortify, ὄρος Hdt. 1.175, etc.; τὸν Πειραιᾶ And. 3.5; τὴν πόλιν, τὸν κρημνόν, Th. 1.93, 6.101; στρατόπεδα δύο Id. 3.6; λίθοις τ. τὴν πόλιν D. 18.299; χαλκοῖς τείχεσι τὴν χώραν Aeschin. 3.84; Μαγνησίαν D. 1.22:—Med., τειχίζεσθαι τὸ χωρίον Th. 4.3:— Pass., Ἀθηναῖοι ἐτειχίσθησαν Id. 1.93; τὰ τετειχισμένα the fortified parts, Id. 4.9; ἐτετείχιστο . . τὰ βασιλήϊα περιβόλῳ stood enclosed by a surrounding wall, Hdt. 1.181: metaph., [Αἴγυπτον] τῷ Νείλῳ τετειχισμένην Isoc. 11.12; ἀσφάλειαν

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