ὅρμημα
hórmēma · G3731 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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sudden violence, sudden force
An event involving sudden force and possible violence
ExamplesRevelation 18:21 Then a strong angel picked up a stone like a great millstone and threw it into the sea, saying, “So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and will never be found again.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Contrasting words 1 word
- ἡσυχία hēsychía · G2271 · quiet circumstances, undisturbed life, silence
- ἡσυχία denotes tranquility and peaceful rest, contrasting with the violent and precipitate nature of ὅρμημα
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Sudden violence, sudden force68.82
- ὅρμημα names sudden, forceful violence, as the angel pictures Babylon's destruction: “‘So will Babylon, the great city, be thrown down with violence, and will never be found again.’” (Revelation 18:21)
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὁρμηματος, τό (ὁρμάω), a rush, impulse: Rev 18:21 (here A. V. violence). (For עֶבְרָה…
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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