θήκη, θήκης, ἡ (τίθημι); from (Aeschylus), Herodotus down; that in which a thing is put or laid away, a receptacle, repository, chest, box: used of the sheath of a sword, Joh_18:11; Josephus, Antiquities 7, 11, 7; Pollux 10 (31) 144.

θήκη thēkē 1x a repository, receptacle; a case, sheath, scabbard, Joh_18:11

Θήκη , -ης , ἡ ( < τίθημι ), [in LXX : Exo_25:27 ( H1004 ), Isa_6:13 ; Isa_3:26 * ;] a receptacle, chest, case: of the sheath of a sword, Joh_18:11 .†

θήκη [page 290] With the use of this word = scabbard, sheath, in Joh_18:11 cf. P Petr III. 140 ( a ) .4 (accounts) περικεφαλαίας καὶ θήκης ν̄ . For the more ordinary meaning box, chest, see P Ryl II. 148 .15 (A.D. 40) θήκην ἀννήσον , a store of anise, BGU III. 781 v .6 (i/A.D.) πίναξ μέγας ἐν θήκῃ , P Giss I. 47 .24 (time of Hadrian) (= Christ. I. p. 383 ) ξυλίνης θήκης , and the mutilated inventory of a temple, BGU II. 387 ii .13 (A.D. 177 181) θῆκαι χαλκᾶ [ι . In P Oxy IX. 1188 .4 (A.D. 13) it is used of the tomb of the sacred animals ἐπὶ τῆ (ς ) τῶν ἱερῶν ζῴων θήκης , so .21 : cf. P Oxy I. 79 verso .18 κ ]ηδίας ἢ βασιλ [ικ (ῶν )] θηκῶν . The diminutive is similarly used in the early Christian inscr. cited s.v. γέμω . For the verb θηκοποιέω = store, see BGU III. 757 .15 (A.D. 12), P Ryl II. 142 .16 (A.D. 37).

θήκη θήκη, ἡ, [Etym: τίθημι] "a case to put anything in, a box, chest", Hdt. , Eur. "a place for corpses, a grave, tomb", Hdt. , Aesch. "a mode of burial", Thuc.

Θήκη, -ης, ἡ (τίθημι), [in LXX: Exo.25:27 (בַּיִת), Isa.6:13 3:26 * ;] a receptacle, chest, case: of the sheath of a sword, Jhn.18:11.† (AS)