Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon

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Corpus	Words	Max. Inst.	Freq./10K	Min. Inst.	Freq./10K
Greek Prose	4172940	750	1.80	750	1.80
Greek Poetry	671088	128	1.91	127	1.89
Greek Texts	4844028	878	1.81	877	1.81
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Words With Similar Definitions
Greek	1: aporriptô	2: ekkrouô	3: exelaunô	4: apoballô	5: exiêmi
Latin	1: jacio	2: proicio	3: evado	4: mitto	5: extermino
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Some Words that Regularly Appear with ekballô
In Greek Prose (275 total):	Beezeboul	karphos	daimonion	Brettios	daimonios
In Greek Poetry (15 total):	dakruon	epos	chthôn	palin	nin
In Greek Texts (318 total):	Beezeboul	karphos	daimonion	Brettios	sumpitnô
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ekballô ^{1 2 3}

I. to throw or cast out of a place, c. gen., Il., etc.; or absol. to throw out, throw overboard, Od.: also, like Lat. ejicere, to throw ashore, id=Od., Hdt.; but, ekb. es to pelagos carry out to sea, id=Hdt.:--Mid. to put ashore, id=Hdt.

2. to cast out of a place, banish, id=Hdt., etc.

3. to expose on a desert island, Soph.; to expose a dead body, id=Soph.

4. to divorce a wife, Dem.

5. to cast out of his seat, depose a king, Aesch., etc.

II. to strike out of, Lat. excutere, cheirôn ekballe kupella Od.;--absol., doura ekb. to fell trees (properly, to cut them out of the forest), id=Od.

2. to strike open, break in, pulas Eur.

III. to let fall, cheiros ekbalen enchos Il.:--metaph., epos ekb. to let fall a word, Hom., etc.; so, dakrua ekb. Od.; ekb. odontas to cast one's teeth, Eur.

IV. to throw away, reject, Soph., etc.:-- to reject a candidate for office, Dem.; to drive an actor from the stage, Lat. explodere, id=Dem.

V. to lose, properly by one's own fault, Soph., etc.

VI. to produce, of women, Plut.; so, of wheat, ekb. stachun Eur.

VII. intr. (sub. heauton to go out, depart, id=Eur.; of a river, to empty, discharge itself, Plat.

¹ fut. -ba^lô

² perf. -beblêka

³ aor2 exeba^lon

This text is based on the following book(s):
Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.
ISBN: 0199102066

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