Etymology
From τίθημι (títhēmi, “to place, put”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /tʰɛ̌ː.kɛː/ → /ˈθi.ci/ → /ˈθi.ci/
Noun
θήκη • (thḗkē) f (genitive θήκης); first declension
- box, chest
- grave, tomb
- sword sheath
Inflection
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ἡ θήκη hē thḗkē |
τὼ θήκᾱ tṑ thḗkā |
αἱ θῆκαι hai thêkai |
τῆς θήκης tês thḗkēs |
τοῖν θήκαιν toîn thḗkain |
τῶν θηκῶν tôn thēkôn |
τῇ θήκῃ têi thḗkēi |
τοῖν θήκαιν toîn thḗkain |
ταῖς θήκαις taîs thḗkais |
τὴν θήκην tḕn thḗkēn |
τὼ θήκᾱ tṑ thḗkā |
τᾱ̀ς θήκᾱς tā̀s thḗkās |
θήκη thḗkē |
θήκᾱ thḗkā |
θῆκαι thêkai |
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Derived terms
- -θήκη (-thḗkē) & compounds
Descendants
- Greek: θήκη f (thíki, “case, sheath”)
- → Hebrew: תִּיק (tík, tīq)
- → Latin: thēca (see there for further descendants)
- → Serbo-Croatian: teka
Further reading
- “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, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- 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 880.
- trunk idem, page 898.
- “θήκη”, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
Noun
θήκη • (thíki) f (plural θήκες)
- case, sheath, holster (close fitting cover or container for something)
Declension
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