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τῐθηνός

tithenos

nursing, one who nurses, foster-father, nursling

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Where it lives

Ruth 1 · 5.21/10k
Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
Regnorum IV 2 · 1.16/10k
Iphigenia in Aulis 1 · 1.12/10k
Regnorum II 1 · 0.62/10k
Numeri 1 · 0.43/10k
Isaias 1 · 0.38/10k

What it meant

τῐθηνός · tithēnos — LSJ

nursing, nursing

nursing, χθών Lyc. 1398; πόνων τιθηνοὺς ἀποδιδοῦσά σοι τροφάς repaying thee nurture for thy nursing labours, i.e. rewarding thee for thy trouble in nursing me, E. IA 1230.

II one who nurses, foster-father

Subst. τιθηνός, ὁ, one who nurses or brings up, foster-father, LXX Nu. 11.12, al., Nic. Al. 31, Orph. H. 54.1, etc.; τ. τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ βασιλέως Sammelb. 1568.2 (ii B.C.): also τιθηνός, ἡ, = τιθήνη, Anon. ap. Longin. 44.2, Plu. Fort.Rom. 2.322c.

2 nursling

nursling, παῖδα τιθηνόν IG 14.1437.

In the wild

τιθηνοὺς · tithēnous Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis (DIORISIS sentence 756)
τιθηνοί · tithēnoi Septuaginta, Isaias 49
τιθηνοὶ · tithēnoi Septuaginta, Machabaeourum III 1
τιθηνὸς · tithēnos Septuaginta, Numeri 11
τιθηνὸς · tithēnos Septuaginta, Regnorum II 4
τιθηνοὺς · tithēnous Septuaginta, Regnorum IV 10

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Where it came from

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