hunting, the chase
hunting, the chase, πεζῶν Pl. Lg. 824a: metaph., ὀνομάτων θηρεύσεις Id. Tht. 166c.
The corpus record
θήρ-ευσις
thereusis · ἡ
hunting, the chase
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Where it lives
- Job 1 · 0.75/10k
- Leviticus 1 · 0.53/10k
- Theaetetus 1 · 0.44/10k
- Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
What it meant — LSJ
In the wild
- θήρευσίς · thēreusis Plato, Laws 824
- θηρεύσεις · thēreuseis Plato, Theaetetus 166
- θηρεύσεις · thēreuseis Septuaginta, Job 38
- θηρεύσῃ · thēreusēi Septuaginta, Leviticus 17
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.