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Strong's #2336 - θήκη
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- that which a thing is put or laid away, a receptacle, repository, chest, box
- used of the sheath of a sword
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θήκ-η, ἡ,
(τίθημι)
1. case, chest, χρυσοῦ θ. a money- chest, Hdt. 3.130, 9.83, E. Hec. 1147, cf. X. Oec. 8.17, etc.
2. 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. ξίφους θ. sword- sheath, Poll. 10.144; τόξου bow- case, EM 333.41.
θήκη, θήκης, ἡ (τίθημι); from (Aeschylus), Herodotus down; that in which a thing is put or laid away, a receptacle, repository, chest, box: used of the sheath of a sword, John 18:11; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 11, 7; Pollux 10 (31) 144.
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Θήκη , -ης , ἡ
(< τίθημι ),
[in LXX: Exodus 25:27 (H1004), Isaiah 6:13; Isaiah 3:26 *;]
a receptacle, chest, case: of the sheath of a sword, John 18:11.†
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With the use of this word = ";scabbard,"; ";sheath,"; in John 18:11 cf. P Petr III. 140 (a).4 (accounts) περικεφαλαίας καὶ θήκης ν ̄. For the more ordinary meaning ";box,"; ";chest,"; see P Ryl II. 148.15 (A.D. 40) θήκην ἀννήσον, ";a store of anise,"; BGU III. 781v .6 (i/A.D.) πίναξ μέγας ἐν θήκῃ, P Giss I. 47.24 (time of Hadrian) (= Christ. I. p. 383) ξυλίνης θήκης, and the mutilated inventory of a temple, BGU II. 387 ii .13 (A.D. 177–181) θῆκαι χαλκᾶ [ι. In P Oxy IX. 1188.4 (A.D. 13) it is used of the ";tomb"; of the sacred animals—ἐπὶ τῆ (ς) τῶν ἱερῶν ζῴων θήκης, so .21 : cf. P Oxy I. 79 verso .18 κ ]ηδίας ἢ βασιλ [ικ (ῶν)] θηκῶν. The diminutive is similarly used in the early Christian inscr. cited s.v. γέμω. For the verb θηκοποιέω = ";store,"; see BGU III. 757.15 (A.D. 12), P Ryl II. 142.16 (A.D. 37).
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