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ὀφρῦς

ophrŷs · G3790 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. cliff, brow of a hill

    (A figurative extension of meaning of ὀφρῦς ‘brow,’ not occurring in the NT) The upper portion of a precipitous or steep contour of a hill or mountain

    Examples

    Luke 4:29 and they got up and drove Him out of the city, and brought Him to the crest of the hill on which their city had been built, so that they could throw Him down from the cliff.

How it’s used In 2 roles

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the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 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
Cliff, brow of a hill1.49
ὀφρῦς names the edge or brow of a hill, as Luke describes the crowd's rejection of Jesus at Nazareth: “and they got up and drove Him out of the city, and led Him to the brow of the hill on which their city had been built, in order to throw Him down the cliff.” (Luke 4:29)
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon ὀφρύος, ἡ, 1. the eyebrow, so from Homer down. 2. any prominence or projection; as…
ὀφρύος, ἡ,
1. the eyebrow, so from Homer down.
2. any prominence or projection; as (English the brow) of a mountain (so the Latinsupercilium, Vergil, georg. 1, 108; Hirtius, bell. afr. 58; Livy 27, 18; 34, 29): Lk 4:29 (Homer, Iliad 20, 151; often in Polybius, Plutarch, others).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Elevated Land Formations1 occurrence

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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