tillamō

τίλλω,
Refs 8th c.BC+future τῐλῶ (ἀπο-) Refs 5th c.BC+: aorist ἔτῑλα Refs 5th c.BC+: perfect τέτιλκα Refs 3rd c.BC+:—middle, Epic dialect imperfect τιλλέσθην Refs 8th c.BC+future τῐλοῦμαι (παρα-) Refs 4th c.BC+:—passive, aorist ἐτίλθην Refs 5th c.BC+aorist ἐτίλην [ῐLXX; 3rd.pers. singular imperative τιλήτωι Refs 3rd c.AD+; participle τειλείς (i.e. τιλ-) Refs 3rd c.AD+: perfect τέτιλμαι LXX+6th c.BC+:—pluck or pull outhair, etc., πολιὰς δ᾽ ἄρ᾽ ἀνὰ τρίχας ἕλκετο χερσί, τίλλων ἐκ κεφαλῆς Refs 8th c.BC+; τίλλε κόμηνRefs 4th c.BC+; τ. στάχυας καὶ ἐσθίειν NT+3rd c.AD+middle, Χαίτας τίλλεσθαι pluck out one's hair, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 with accusative of that from which the hair or feathers are plucked, τίλλειν πέλειαν, of birds of prey,Refs 5th c.BC+; τίλλουσι τὴν γλαῦκα, of small birds attacking the owl, Refs 4th c.BC+; so of the cuckoo,Refs; as a description of an idle fellow, τίλλων ἑαυτόν Refs 5th c.BC+; of a cook, pluck a fowl, Refs 5th c.BC+; τ. πλάτανον pluck its leaves off, Refs 3rd c.BC+; κῴδια τ. Refs 3rd c.BC+; also, pluck live sheep, instead of shearing, τοῖς τίλλουσιν τὰ ὑποδίφθερα (i.e. πρόβατα) Refs 3rd c.BC+ see entry {πεκτῆρες}:—passive, have one's hair plucked out, Refs 5th c.BC+; τέφρᾳ τιλθῆναι, as a punishment of adulterers, Refs; see at {παρατίλλω, τέφρα}.
3 with accusative cognate, τίλματα τ. Refs 3rd c.BC+
4 τ. μέλη pluck the harp-strings, play harp-tunes, Refs 5th c.BC+
5 pick so as to extract fibre, τετίλκασι στιππύου δέσμας σ Refs
6 νεφέλιον παρατεταμένον καὶ τιλλόμενον cirrous, Refs 4th c.BC+
II since tearing the hair was a usual expression of sorrow, τίλλεσθαί τινα tear one's hair in sorrow for any one, τόν γ᾽ ἄλοχός τε φίλη καὶ πότνια μήτηρ τιλλέσθην Refs 8th c.BC+
III metaphorically, pluck, vex, annoy, Refs 6th c.BC+; στέφανον τ., ={τοὺς νόμους λυμαίνεσθαι}, Refs 4th c.BC+ —passive, ὑπὸ συκοφαντῶν τίλλεσθαι, with allusion to a bird's feathers, Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.