Word

ὄρος

óros · G3735 · Greek · 63 occurrences

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Meanings

mountain

A relatively high elevation of land, in contrast with βουνός hill, which is by comparison somewhat lower

Examples
Matthew 4:8 Again, the devil took Him along to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory;
Matthew 5:1 Now when Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him.
Matthew 5:14 “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden;

How it’s used In 9 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

11 occurrences in 3 groups

ἐλαιώνolive grove 9
Σινᾶ(Mount) Sinai 1
ΣιώνSion 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

12 occurrences in 6 groups

οὗτοςthis 5
ὑψηλόςhigh 4
μέγαςgreat, large 2
ἑπτάseven 1
καίωto burn 1
ἅγιοςholy 1

Named alongside itApposition

9 occurrences in 6 groups

καλέωto call, to name 3
Σινᾶ(Mount) Sinai 3
εἰμίto be 1
οἰκοδομέωto build, to build up 1
ΣιώνSion 1
τάσσωto appoint 1

What it doesIt is the subject

4 occurrences in 4 groups

εὑρίσκωto find, to discover 1
κινέωto move 1
ταπεινόωto make low 1
βάλλωto throw, to put 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

θιγγάνωto touch 1
μεθίστημιto cause to move 1

It is given or told toIndirect object

5 occurrences in 2 groups

ἔπωto say 3
λέγωto say 2

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

βόσκωto tend, to feed 1
εἷςone 1
κεφαλήhead 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

45 occurrences in 7 groups

εἰςto 54
ἐνin 11
ἐπίon 10
ἀπόfrom 7
πρόςto, toward, with 5
ἐκfrom 4

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

4 occurrences in 4 groups

ἔρημοςwilderness, desert, deserted 1
κατάβασιςslope 1
ὀφρῦςcliff 1
πέτραrock 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 1 word

הַר har · H2022 · mountain, hill-country: Hebrew הַר is the direct Hebrew equivalent, denoting elevated terrain or mountains, of Greek ὄρος, reflecting consistent Septuagint translation practice.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Mountain1.46: ὄρος names an elevated landform, a mountain or hill, as the setting for one of Jesus' most extended teachings: “Now when Jesus saw the crowds, He went up on the mountain; and after He sat down, His disciples came to Him.” (Matthew 5:1)

Word family 6 words

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

ὄροςóros · G3735ὄρθρος órthros · G3722 · early morning, daybreak, sunrise · 3×ὀρεινός oreinós · G3714 · mountainous region, hill country · 2×ὀρθρίζω 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 ὄρους, τό (ὈΡΩ, ὄρνυμι (i. e. a rising; see orthroi])) (from Homer down), the Sept. for…

ὄρους, τό (ὈΡΩ, ὄρνυμι (i. e. a rising; see orthroi])) (from Homer down), the Sept. for הַר, a mountain: Mt 5:14; Lk 3:5; Rev 6:14, and often; τό ὄρος, the mountain nearest the place spoken of, the mountain near by (but see ὁ, II. 1 b.), Mt 5:1; Mk 3:13; Lk 9:28; Jn 6:3, Jn 6:15; plural ὄρη, Mt 18:12; Mt 24:16; Mk 5:5; Rev 6:16, etc.; genitive plural ὀρέων (on this uncontracted form, used also in Attic, cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Gram. § 49 note 3; Winers Grammar, § 9, 2 c.; (Buttmann, 14 (13); Dindorf in Fleckeisen's Jahrb. for 1869, p. 83)), Rev 6:15; ὄρη μεθιστάνειν a proverb. phrase, used also by rabbinical writings, to remove mountains, i. e. to accomplish most difficult, stupendous, incredible things: 1 Cor 13:2, cf. Mt 17:20; Mt 21:21; Mk 11:23.

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Elevated Land Formations63 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