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ὀργυιά

orguiá · G3712 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. fathom

    Traditionally the measurement of a man’s arms stretched out horizontally, reckoned at approximately six feet or almost two meters and used as a technical, nautical term to measure the depth of water

    Examples

    Acts 27:28 And they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms; and a little farther on they took another sounding and found it to be fifteen fathoms.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Fathom81.26
ὀργυιά names a fixed nautical unit of depth used for a sounding, as the sailors approaching Malta measure the water beneath the ship: “they took soundings and found it to be twenty fathoms.” (Acts 27:28)
Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

ὀρέγομαι orégomai · G3713 · to strive to attain, to aspire to, to eagerly long for · 3×ὀργή orgḗ · G3709 · anger, fury, to punish · 36×ὀργίζω orgízō · G3710 · to be full of anger, to be furious, to be angry · 8×ὀργυιάorguiá · G3712παροργίζω parorgízō · G3949 · to cause to be provoked, to make angry · 2×ὀργίλος orgílos · G3711 · angry, quick-tempered, given to anger · 1×ὄρεξις órexis · G3715 · to be inflamed with passion, to have a strong lust for, to be inflamed with lust · 1×παροργισμός parorgismós · G3950 · anger, being provoked · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀργυιάς, ἡ (ὀρέγω to stretch out), the distance across the breast front the tip of one…
ὀργυιάς, ἡ (ὀρέγω to stretch out), the distance across the breast front the tip of one middle finger to the tip of the other when the arms are outstretched; five or six feet, a fathom: Acts 27:28. (Homer, Herodotus, Xenophon, others.)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Specific Measures of Length2 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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