G2998
G2998 — λατομέω
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
latomeo (lat-om-eh'-o) v.
1. to quarry
[from las "a stone" and the base of G5114]
KJV: hew
Root(s): G5114
See also: G2991
TWOT
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KJV Renderings
hew
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
λατομέω, λατόμω: 1 aorist ἐλατόμησα; perfect passive participle λελατομημενος; (from λατόμος a stone-cutter, and this from λᾶς a stone, and τέμνω); to cut stones, to hew out stones: Mat 27:60; Mar 15:46. (The Sept. several times for çÈöÇá; once for ëÈÌøÈä, Exo 21:33 ff; Diodorus (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Strabo, others (cf. Sophocles Lexicon, under the word)), Justin Martyr.)
Englishman's Greek Concordance
λατομέω (hew)
Matthew 27:60
- KJV: And laid it in his own new tomb which he had hewn out in the rock and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre and departed
- GK: και έθηκεν αυτό εν τω καινώ αυτού μνημείω ο ελατόμησεν εν τη πέτρα και προσκυλίσας λίθον μέγαν τη θύρα του μνημείου απήλθεν
Mark 15:46
- KJV: And he bought fine linen and took him down and wrapped him in the linen and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre
- GK: και αγοράσας σινδόνα και καθελών αυτόν ενείλησε τη σινδόνι και κατέθηκεν αυτόν εν μνημείω ο ην λελατομημένον εκ πέτρας και προσεκύλισε λίθον επί την θύραν του μνημείου