A.basket plaited from papyrus, PPetr.3p.145 (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen.69 (iii B.C.), PGrenf.1.14.10 (ii B.C.), LXXEx.2.3,6, Suid.: the form θίβη given by Hsch., Phot., v.l. in Suid., is false: θῆβις (sic) τῶν ἄρτων, correction of πρόθεσις τ. ἄ., UPZ149.21 (iii B.C.):—Hsch. also gives θίβωνος (extra ordinem): κιβωτός (Cypr.), and θίγωνος: κιβωτοῦ. (Hebr. tēbhāh, from Egypt. dbet 'box'.)
θῖβις or θίβις , εως, ἡ,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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