Θίβις

basket

Translated by Ryan Stone24 Feb 2008Vetting: high3 revisions

12 words

[Meaning] a box plaited out of papyrus, so [as to be] basket-like.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Θίβις· κιβώτιον ἐκ βύβλου πλεκτόν, ὡς κοφινῶδες.

Betacode

*qi/bis: kibw/tion e)k bu/blou plekto/n, w(s kofinw=des.

Same or similar entry in other lexica. This feminine noun -- properly qi/bis rather than qi/bh -- is used in Exodus 2.3 LXX of the vessel which carried the infant Moses. (Also on papyri: see LSJ s.v.)

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