ἐξορύσσω
exorýssō · G1846 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to break loose, to take out, to dig out an opening
To break something loose, usually by digging out and opening up an area
ExamplesMark 2:4 And when they were unable to get to Him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above Him; and after digging an opening, they let down the pallet on which the paralyzed man was lying.
Galatians 4:15 Where then is that sense of blessing you had? For I testify about you that, if possible, you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me.
How it’s used In 2 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
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 2
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- κράββατοςcot 1
- ὀφθαλμόςeye 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
- ἐξαιρέω exairéō · G1807 · to take out, to remove, to set free
- Greek verb meaning 'to tear out, extract, remove,' overlapping with the extraction/removal sense of ἐξορύσσω, though ἐξαιρέω lacks the specific digging connotation and can extend to figurative rescue/release
In the other Testament 2 words
- חָתַר châthar · H2864 · to dig, to row
- Hebrew verb for digging through or breaking through, closely parallel to the sense of ἐξορύσσω as 'to dig out/through' (used of breaking through walls, roofs, etc.)
- כָּרָה kârâh · H3738 · to dig, to hew out, to plot
- Common Hebrew verb for digging out or excavating, semantically equivalent to the core digging-out sense of ἐξορύσσω
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To break loose, to take out, to dig out an opening19.42
- This verb describes creating an opening by digging or breaking through, used of the men who dug through the roof to lower the paralyzed man to Jesus — "they removed the roof above Him; and after digging an opening, they let down the pallet" (Mark 2:4), and of Paul's hyperbolic description of the Galatians' former devotion, willing even to have gouged out their own eyes for him — "you would have torn out your eyes and given them to me" (Galatians 4:15).
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist participle ἐξορύξαντες; from Herodotus down; 1. to dig out: τούς ὀφθαλμούς…
1. to dig out: τούς ὀφθαλμούς (properly, to pluck out the eyes; so Judg 16:21 (Alex.); 1 Sam 11:2; Herodotus 8, 116; Josephus, Antiquities 6, 5, 1; Lucian, dial. deor. 1, 1; others) καί διδόναι τίνι, metaphorically, to renounce the most precious things for another's advantage, Gal 4:15 (similar expressions see in Terence, adelph. 4, 5, 67; Horace sat. 2, 5, 35; (Wetstein at the passage)); in opposition to a very few interpretaters who, assuming that Paul suffered from a weakness of the eyes, understand the words literally, Ye would have plucked out your sound eyes and have put them into me, see Meyer at the passage; (cf. references under the word σκόλοψ, at the end).
2. to dig through: τήν στέγην, Mk 2:4.
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
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