The corpus record

ξῐφη-φόρος

xiphephoros

bearing a sword, sword in hand

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Where it lives

Bacchae 2 · 2.66/10k
Heracles 2 · 2.56/10k
Libation Bearers 1 · 1.86/10k
Machabaeorum IV 1 · 1.3/10k
Ion 1 · 1.09/10k
Helen 1 · 1.02/10k
Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k

What it meant — LSJ

bearing a sword, sword in hand, swordsman

bearing a sword, sword in hand, E. Or. 1504, al.; ξ. ἀγῶνες A. Ch. 584, E. HF 812 (lyr.); βρόχοι ib. 730; χεῖρες Antiph. 217.19, cf. Callistr. Stat. 13: as Subst., swordsman, Hdn. 7.10.7.

= ξιφίας II, Sch. Arat. 1091.

In the wild

ξιφηφόρους · xiphēphorous Aeschylus, Libation Bearers 583–584
ξιφηφόρος · xiphēphoros Euripides, Bacchae 1013–1017
ξιφηφόρος · xiphēphoros Euripides, Bacchae 992–996
ξιφηφόρος · xiphēphoros Euripides, Helen (DIORISIS sentence 721)
ξιφηφόρων · xiphēphorōn Euripides, Heracles 809–814
ξιφηφόροισι · xiphēphoroisi Euripides, Heracles 728–730

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Where it came from

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