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ἐνείρω , aor. 1 ἐνεῖρα (v. infr.),
A.entwine, enwreath, “τέττιγας ταῖς θριξί” Ael.VH4.22:—Pass., “ἀνθερίκων ἐνειρμένων περὶ σχοίνους” Hdt.4.190.
2. thread, pass through, A. n.Tact.31.18; also “καρίδα ἀγκίστρῳ” Ael.NA1.15; “ὀστέοις καὶ νεύροις τινά” LXX Jb.10.11; “ῥίζαν λίνῳ” Dsc.2.166.
3. string together, Thphr.HP9.9.1, 9.12.1 (Pass.).
II. insert, “πῆχυν μεταξὺ τῶν μηρίων” Hp.Art.70; “χεῖρας εἰς σφαίρας” Dionys. Eleg.3.3; “ἐνεῖραν [πεύκῃ] σφῆνας” Babr.38.2.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (5):
    • Herodotus, Histories, 4.190
    • Old Testament, Job, 10.11
    • Hippocrates, De articulis, 70
    • Aelian, De Natura Animalium, 1.15
    • Aelian, Varia Historia, 4.22
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