The corpus record

θήκ-η

theke · ἡ

case, chest

Generated live from the audited corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.

Where it lives

Suppliant Maidens 1 · 2.07/10k
Persians 1 · 1.96/10k
Hecuba 1 · 1.4/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
Histories 21 · 1.14/10k
Oedipus at Colonus 1 · 0.97/10k
Isaias 2 · 0.76/10k
John 1 · 0.65/10k
Economics 1 · 0.56/10k
Exodus 1 · 0.42/10k
Laws 4 · 0.39/10k

Densest 12 of 15 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.

What it meant — LSJ

case, chest, chest

case, chest, χρυσοῦ θ. a money-chest, Hdt. 3.130, 9.83, E. Hec. 1147, cf. X. Oec. 8.17, etc.

2 grave, tomb, modes of burial

grave, tomb, A. Pers. 405, S. OC 1763 (anap.); νεκρῶν θήκας ἀνοίγειν Hdt. 1.187, cf. 67, al.; αἱ θ. τῶν τεθνεώτων Th. 1.8, 3.104; εἰς ἀναισχύντους θ. ἐτράποντο modes of burial, Id. 2.52, cf. Pl. R. 427b; θήκην ὀρύττειν X. Cyr. 7.3.5.

3 sheath, case

ξίφους θ. sword-sheath, Poll. 10.144; τόξου bow-case, EM 333.41.

In the wild

θήκας · thēkas Aeschylus, Agamemnon 452–454
θήκας · thēkas Aeschylus, Persians 399–404
θήκας · thēkas Aeschylus, Suppliant Maidens 23–28
θήκας · thēkas Euripides, Hecuba *polumh/stwr.1145 (DIORISIS sentence 650)
θήκας · thēkas Herodotus, Histories 1.187.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1326)
θήκην · thēkēn Herodotus, Histories 1.67.3 (DIORISIS sentence 442)

6 of 44 attestations shown. Ask for more.

Where it came from

No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.

Ask the librarian

Ask about θήκ-η →