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λάρυγξ

lárynx · G2995 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. throat

    The throat, the front passage of the neck

    Examples

    Romans 3:13 “THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING,” “THE VENOM OF ASPS IS UNDER THEIR LIPS”;

How it’s used In 2 roles

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Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

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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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In the other Testament 2 words
חֵךְ chêk · H2441 · palate, mouth
Hebrew חֵךְ (roof of the mouth, palate) is rendered by Greek λάρυγξ (throat, larynx) in LXX contexts where the anatomical reference encompasses the upper vocal/digestive tract, reflecting overlapping semantic fields for internal mouth/throat anatomy in the respective languages.
גָּרוֹן gârôwn · H1627 · throat, neck
Hebrew גָּרוֹן (gârôwn, H1627) denotes the anatomical throat, directly equivalent to Greek λάρυγξ (lárynx, G2995), both referring to the larynx/throat passage as a physical organ.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Throat8.26
λάρυγξ names the throat. Romans 3:13 quotes, “THEIR THROAT IS AN OPEN GRAVE, WITH THEIR TONGUES THEY KEEP DECEIVING,” the λάρυγξ naming this throat used as an instrument of deceit.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λάρυγγος, ὁ, the throat (Etym. Magn. (557, 16): λάρυγξ μέν δἰ οὗ λαλοῦμεν... φάρυγξ δέ δἰ…
λάρυγγος, ὁ, the throat (Etym. Magn. (557, 16): λάρυγξ μέν δἰ οὗ λαλοῦμεν... φάρυγξ δέ δἰ οὗ ἐσθίομεν καί πίνομεν): of the instrument or organ of speech (as Ps 5:10; Prov 8:7; Sir. 6:5(4)), Rom 3:13, where the meaning is, their speech threatens and imprecates destruction to others. (Aristophanes, Euripides, Aristotle, Galen, others; the Sept. several times for גָּרון; more often for חֵך, the palate.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Parts of the Body1 occurrence

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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