The corpus record

θάμβος

thambos · τό

amazement, terrors, object of wonder

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Where it lives

Canticum 3 · 15.42/10k
Rhesus 1 · 1.86/10k
Luke 2 · 1.04/10k
Phaedrus 1 · 0.6/10k
Acts 1 · 0.56/10k
Regnorum I 1 · 0.54/10k
Iliad 4 · 0.36/10k
Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
Enneads 5 · 0.24/10k
Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant — LSJ

1. θάμβ-ος · thamb-os

amazement

amazement, θ. δʼ ἔχεν εἰσορόωντας Il. 4.79; θ. δʼ ἕλε πάντας ἰδόντας Od. 3.372; θάμβει δυσφόρῳ τερπνῷ τε μιχθείς Pi. N. 1.55; θάμβει ἐκπλαγέντες E. Rh. 291, cf. Ar. Av. 781 (lyr.), Th. 6.31, Pl. Phdr. 254c: pl., Onos. 41.2.

2 terrors, object of wonder

in objective sense, θάμβοι terrors in the way, LXX l.c.; object of wonder, Epigr.Gr. 1068 (Gerasa).

2. θαμβ-ός · thamb-os

astonished

astonished, Eust. 906.53.

In the wild

θάμβος · thambos Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9009)
θάμβει · thambei Euripides, Rhesus (DIORISIS sentence 191)
θάμβος · thambos Iliad 23.815
θάμβος · thambos Iliad 24.482
θάμβος · thambos Iliad 3.342
θάμβος · thambos Iliad 4.79

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Where it came from

Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. θάμβος (scan pp. 579-580; entry #2517).
Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. θάμβος (scan p. 436; entry #3074).

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