ὀρύσσω
orýssō · G3736 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to dig, to excavate
To make a hole in the ground and to remove earth with some sharp-edged intrument (for example, a pick or spade)
ExamplesMatthew 21:33 “Listen to another parable. There was a landowner who PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A FENCE AROUND IT, AND DUG A WINE PRESS IN IT, AND BUILT A TOWER, and he leased it to vine-growers and went on a journey.
Matthew 25:18 “But he who received the one talent went away and dug a hole in the ground, and hid his master’s money.
Mark 12:1 And He began to speak to them in parables: “A man planted a vineyard and put a fence around it, and dug a vat under the wine press and built a tower, and leased it to vine-growers and went on a journey.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- λαμβάνωto receive, to take 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- γῆearth 1
- ληνόςwine press 1
- ὑπολήνιονwine trough 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐνin+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- λαλέωto speak 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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Near synonyms 1 word
- σκάπτω skáptō · G4626 · to dig, to excavate, to till the ground
- Both verbs share the literal sense 'to dig, to excavate.' σκάπτω's additional sense of tilling represents a natural extension of digging activity rather than a different referent, and there remains a defensible nuance in scope — burrowing versus general digging — within a shared core action of digging.
In the other Testament 2 words
- חָפַר châphar · H2658 · to paw, to dig
- Hebrew חָפַר and Greek ὀρύσσω both denote the physical act of digging into earth or ground, representing direct translation equivalents for this core excavation sense across the LXX alignment data.
- כָּרָה kârâh · H3738 · to dig, to hew out, to plot
- Hebrew כָּרָה and Greek ὀρύσσω are direct cross-linguistic equivalents both denoting the physical act of digging/excavating earth, with כָּרָה covering a slightly broader range including metaphorical 'digging' (preparing a banquet) while ὀρύσσω remains concrete.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To dig, to excavate19.55
- ὀρύσσω describes the physical act of digging into the ground, as Jesus tells the parable of the vineyard owner's preparations: “There was a landowner who PLANTED A VINEYARD AND PUT A FENCE AROUND IT, AND DUG A WINE PRESS IN IT, AND BUILT A TOWER.” (Matthew 21:33)
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ὤρυξα; from Homer down; the Sept. for חָפַר, כָּרָה, etc.; to dig: to make τί…
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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