The corpus record

ξῠλ-όω

xuloo

turn into wood

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Where it lives

Paralipomenon II 1 · 0.51/10k
Jeremias 1 · 0.36/10k
Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k

What it meant — LSJ

turn into wood, become wood

turn into wood :—Pass., become wood, Thphr. HP 1.2.7 : metaph., of persons suffering from tetanus, οἱονεὶ ξ. Herod.Med. in Rh.Mus. 58.90.

II make of wood

make of wood, γαῦλον IG ΙΙ(2).203 A 53 (Delos, iii B.C.), cf. 12(3).1270.15 (Syme, ii/i B.C.), LXX 2 Ch. 3.5 :—Pass., ib. Ez. 41.16 ; ναὸς ἐξυλωμένος SIG 996.18 (Smyrna, i A.D.).

In the wild

ἐξυλωμένα · exylōmena Septuaginta, Ezechiel 41
ἐξυλωμένα · exylōmena Septuaginta, Jeremias 22
ἐξύλωσεν · exylōsen Septuaginta, Paralipomenon II 3

Where it came from

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