λατομέω
latoméō · G2998 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to cut rock, to hew out rock
To shape rock by cutting, either internally or externally
ExamplesMatthew 27:60 and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut out in the rock; and he rolled a large stone against the entrance of the tomb and went away.
Mark 15:46 Joseph bought a linen cloth, took Him down, wrapped Him in the linen cloth, and laid Him in a tomb which had been cut out in the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.
How it’s used In 4 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ὅςwho, which, that 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin+ πέτραrock 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- μνημεῖονgrave 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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In the other Testament 2 words
- חָצַב châtsab · H2672 · to hew, to hew out, to dig
- Hebrew verb for cutting or hewing stone/rock, the standard translation equivalent for λατομέω in contexts of quarrying or rock-cutting (e.g., Isaiah 51:1, cisterns, tombs)
- פָּסַל pâçal · H6458 · to cut, to carve, to hew
- Hebrew verb for hewing or carving, often used for stone work and idol-carving, overlaps with quarrying/stone-cutting semantic domain
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To cut rock, to hew out rock19.25
- λατομέω describes cutting or hewing rock. Matthew 27:60 recounts that Joseph of Arimathea laid Jesus' body in his own new tomb, “which he had cut out in the rock,” the ἐλατόμησεν naming this tomb hewn directly from stone.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon λατόμω: 1 aorist ἐλατόμησα; perfect passive participle λελατομημενος; (from λατόμος a…
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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