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ὀπή

opḗ · G3692 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. hole, opening

    An opening or hole in the ground, either large as in Hebrews 11:38 or relatively small as in James 3:11

    Examples

    Hebrews 11:38 (people of whom the world was not worthy), wandering in deserts, on mountains, and sheltering in caves and holes in the ground.

    James 3:11 Does a spring send out from the same opening both fresh and bitter water?

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

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
σπήλαιον spḗlaion · G4693 · cave, den, hideout
Greek term for cave or cavern, semantically overlapping with ὀπή's secondary sense of 'cavern' but more commonly used and specifically denoting a cave structure.
In the other Testament 2 words
מְעָרָה mᵉʻârâh · H4631 · cave
Hebrew term for a cave or cavern, directly corresponding to one of ὀπή's glosses ('cavern'), used frequently in the Hebrew Bible for natural rock formations with openings.
חוֹר chôwr · H2356 · hole, den, socket
Hebrew noun meaning hole or opening, a straightforward translation equivalent for ὀπή in its primary sense of a hole or aperture.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Hole, opening1.53
Commending the faith of the persecuted, Hebrews 11:38 states “wandering in deserts, on mountains, and sheltering in caves and holes in the ground,” where “holes” renders this noun.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀπῆς, ἡ (perhaps from ὄψ (root ὀπ (see ὁράω); cf. Curtius, § 627)), properly, through…
ὀπῆς, ἡ (perhaps from ὄψ (root ὀπ (see ὁράω); cf. Curtius, § 627)), properly, through which one can see (Pollux (2, 53, p. 179) ὀπή, δἰ ἧς ἐστιν ἰδεῖν, cf. German Luke, Loch (?)), an opening, aperture (used of a window, Song of Solomon 5:4): of fissures in the earth, Jas 3:11 (Ex 33:22); of caves in rocks or mountains, Heb 11:38 (here R. V. holes); Obad 1:3. (Of various other kinds of holes and openings, in Aristophanes, Aristotle, others.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Depressions and Holes2 occurrences

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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