Lexical Summary latomeō: to hew out (stones) Original Word: λατομέωTransliteration: latomeō Phonetic Spelling: (lat-om-eh'-o) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to hew out (stones) Meaning: to hew out (stones) Strong's Concordance hew. From the same as the first part of laxeutos and the base of tomoteros; to quarry -- hew. see GREEK laxeutos see GREEK tomoteros Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2998: λατομέωλατομέω, 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: Matthew 27:60; Mark 15:46. (The Sept. several times for חָצַב; once for כָּרָה, Exodus 21:33ff; Diodorus (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Strabo, others (cf. Sophocles Lexicon, under the word)), Justin Martyr.) |
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