The corpus record

θᾰνᾰτηφόρ-ος

thanatephoros

death-bringing

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Where it lives

Machabaeorum IV 3 · 3.89/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Oedipus Tyrannus 1 · 1.08/10k
Job 1 · 0.75/10k
Numeri 1 · 0.43/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k

What it meant — LSJ

death-bringing, of mortality, Acokanthera Schimperi, causing death by contagion, capital, a death song

death-bringing, αἶσα A. Ch. 369 (lyr.); περίοδος θ. cycle of mortality, Pl. R. 617d; of hurts or accidents, Hp. Art. 48; of a surgical operation, Antyll. ap. Orib. 45.17.6; ῥίζα ἐν Αἰθιοπία, of arrow-poison, Acokanthera Schimperi, Thphr. HP 9.15.2; ὀδύναι Arist. PA 672a36; γένεθλα . . θ. κεῖται causing death by contagion, S. OT 181 (lyr.); πᾶσαι μεταβολαὶ πολιτειῶν θ. X. HG 2.3.32; ἁμαρτία LXX Nu. 18.22; δίκαι capital trials, Not.Arch. 4.19 (Cyrene, Aug.); ἐπιστολή Hdn. 4.12.8; περιστάσεις Vett.

In the wild

θανατηφόρον · thanatēphoron Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 367–371
θανατηφόροι · thanatēphoroi Septuaginta, Job 33
θανατηφόρον · thanatēphoron Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 15
θανατηφόρον · thanatēphoron Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 8
θανατηφόρος · thanatēphoros Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 8
θανατηφόρον · thanatēphoron Septuaginta, Numeri 18

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Where it came from

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