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ὀρεινός

oreinós · G3714 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. mountainous region, hill country

    Pertaining to an area characterized by mountains or hills

    Examples

    Luke 1:39 Now at this time Mary set out and went in a hurry to the hill country, to a city of Judah,

    Luke 1:65 And fear came on all those who lived around them; and all these matters were being talked about in the entire hill country of Judea.

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

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

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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In the other Testament 1 word
הַר har · H2022 · mountain, hill-country
Hebrew הַר (har, H2022) denotes physical mountains and hill country in the Hebrew Bible; Greek ὀρεινός (oreinós, G3714) renders this as the adjectival 'mountainous/highland' in the LXX, particularly in geographic descriptions of Judean highlands.
Semantic domains 1 entry
Mountainous region, hill country1.47
ὀρεινός names hilly, elevated terrain as a region, as Mary sets out to visit Elizabeth: “Mary set out and went in a hurry to the hill country, to a city of Judah.” (Luke 1:39)
Word family 6 words

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

ὄρος óros · G3735 · mountain · 63×ὄρθρος órthros · G3722 · early morning, daybreak, sunrise · 3×ὀρεινόςoreinós · G3714ὀρθρίζω orthrízō · G3719 · to get up early, to get up early and go · 1×ὀρθρινός orthrinós · G3720 · relating to the dawn, i.e. matutinal · 1×ὄρθριος órthrios · G3721 · early in the morning · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀρεινῇ, ὀρεινόν (ὄρος), mountainous, hilly; ἡ ὀρεινῇ (WH ὀρινη, see Iota) namely, χώρα…
ὀρεινῇ, ὀρεινόν (ὄρος), mountainous, hilly; ἡ ὀρεινῇ (WH ὀρινη, see Iota) namely, χώρα (cf. Winers Grammar, 591 (550)) (which is added in Herodotus 1, 110; Xenophon, Cyril 1, 3, 3), the mountain-district, hill-country: Lk 1:39, Lk 1:65 (Aristotle, h. a. 5, 28, 4; the Sept. for הַר, Gen 14:10; Deut 11:11; Josh 2:16, etc.).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Elevated Land Formations2 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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