Ancient Greek

Noun

θήκη • ‎(thḗkē) f ‎(genitive θήκης); first declension

1. box, chest
2. grave, tomb
3. sword sheath

Inflection

Derived terms

Descendants

• Greek: θήκη f ‎(thíki, “case, sheath”)
• Hebrew: תִּיק ‎(tík, tīq)

References

• θήκη in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• θήκη in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
• «θήκη» in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• “G2336”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • bin idem, page 79.
  • box idem, page 92.
  • cabinet idem, page 108.
  • case idem, page 116.
  • casket idem, page 116.
  • chest idem, page 129.
  • coffer idem, page 141.
  • grave idem, page 371.
  • safe idem, page 730.
  • tomb idem, page 879.
  • trunk idem, page 898.

Greek

Etymology

From Ancient Greek θήκη ‎(thḗkē)

Noun

θήκη • ‎(thíki) f ‎(plural θήκες)

1. case, sheath, holster (close fitting cover or container for something)

Declension

Related terms

• θηκάρι n ‎(thikári, “sheath”)