διορύσσω
diorýssō · G1358 · Greek · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to break through, to break in, to break into
To break through a wall or barrier, normally by the process of digging through (usually implying a wall made of sun-dried brick)
ExamplesMatthew 6:19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.
Matthew 6:20 “But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys, and where thieves do not break in or steal;
Matthew 24:43 “But be sure of this, that if the head of the house had known at what time of the night the thief was coming, he would have been on the alert and would not have allowed his house to be broken into.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- κλέπτηςthief 2
- οἰκίαhouse, home, dwelling 1
- οἶκοςhouse, household 1
With adverbsAdverbs
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ὅπουwhere, wherever, in which 2
- οὐnot 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- ἐάωto allow 1
- ἀφίημιto leave, to forgive, to let 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- κλέπτω kléptō · G2813 · to steal, theft
- While κλέπτω focuses on the act of theft itself, διορύσσω emphasizes the breaking-in method; however, they overlap in burglar contexts (cf. Matthew 6:19-20 where both concepts appear together)
Contrasting words 1 word
- φυλάσσω phylássō · G5442 · to guard closely, to obey, to keep commandments
- Lexical opposite: διορύσσω denotes penetrating/breaking into a protected space, while φυλάσσω denotes the act of guarding/protecting against such intrusion
In the other Testament 1 word
- חָתַר châthar · H2864 · to dig, to row
- Hebrew verb for breaking through a wall (often for burglary), the standard translation equivalent for διορύσσω in contexts like Job 24:16 (LXX) and Exodus 22:2
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To break through, to break in, to break into19.41
- Used of a thief forcibly entering a house, as of Jesus' teaching that if the head of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have allowed his house to be broken into in Matthew 24:43, and the parallel warning that no one breaks into a house without first binding the strong man in Mark 3:27 and the further sayings on thieves not being allowed to break in in Matthew 6:19 and Luke 12:39.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon passive, 1 aorist infinitive διορυχθῆναι (Mt 24:43 T Tr WH; Lk 12:39 T WH Trmarginal…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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