θῖβις
θῖβις, basket
θῖβις or θίβις, εως, ἡ,
- basket plaited from papyrus, PPetr. 3 p.145 (iii B.C.), PCair.Zen. 69 (iii B.C.), PGrenf. 1.14.10 (ii B.C.), LXX Ex. 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., UPZ 149.21 (iii B.C.):—Hsch. also gives θίβωνος (extra ordinem)· κιβωτός (Cypr.), and θίγωνος· κιβωτοῦ. (Hebr. tēbhāh, from Egypt. dbet ‘box’.)