τομώτερος
tomṓteros · G5114 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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cutting, sharp
Pertaining to having the capacity to cut efficiently
ExamplesHebrews 4:12 For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, even penetrating as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- ὀξύς oxýs · G3691 · sharp, quick, swift
- τομώτερος and ὀξύς both denote sharpness or keenness. ὀξύς additionally extends metaphorically to swiftness, a sense the cutting-edge sense of τομώτερος does not share; both converge closely on the core meaning of a sharp cutting edge.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Cutting, sharp79.96
- Hebrews 4:12 — “For the word of God is living and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword.”
Word family 29 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root κόπτω
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τομωτερα, τομωτερον (comparitive from τομός cutting, sharp, and this from τέμνω),…
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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