ΔΙΩΡΥΞΑ, διωρυξα
DIŌRYXA, diōryxa
Sounds Like: dee-OH-rook-sah
Translations: I dug through, I dug up, I broke through, I undermined
From the root: ΔΙΟΡΥΣΣΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This is a compound verb formed from the preposition διά (dia), meaning 'through' or 'apart', and the verb ὀρύσσω (orysso), meaning 'to dig'. Therefore, it literally means 'to dig through' or 'to dig up'. It is used to describe the action of excavating, breaking through a barrier by digging, or undermining something.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Indicative, 1st Person Singular
Strong’s number: G1358 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Ezekiel — 12:7
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΙΟΡΥΣΣΩ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΔΙΟΡΥΞΕΙ — will dig through, will break through, will undermine, will burrow through
- ΔΙΟΡΥΞΟΝ — dig through, break through, mine, dig down, break into
- ΔΙΟΡΥΣΣΟΥΣΙ — dig through, break through, undermine, break into
- ΔΙΟΡΥΣΣΟΥΣΙΝ — dig through, break through, dig up, undermine, break into
- ΔΙΟΡΥΣΣΩ — to dig through, to break through, to undermine
- ΔΙΟΡΥΧΘΗΝΑΙ — to be dug through, to be broken into, to be undermined
- ΔΙΩΡΥΞΑΝ — they dug through, they broke through, they undermined
- ΔΙΩΡΥΞΕΝ — he dug through, he broke through, he dug up, he undermined
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