ΔΙΩΡΥΧΑΣ, διωρυχας
DIŌRYCHAS, diōrychas
Sounds Like: dee-OH-roo-khas
Translations: canals, trenches, ditches
From the root: ΔΙΩΡΥΞ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to man-made channels or excavations, such as canals for water, trenches for military purposes, or ditches. It is a compound word formed from the preposition διά (dia), meaning 'through', and ὀρύσσω (oryssō), meaning 'to dig'. It describes something that has been dug through.
Inflection: Accusative, Plural, Feminine
Strong’s number: G1363 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 9:203
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Six — 7:15
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΔΙΩΡΥΞ.
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.
- ΔΙΩΡΥΓΑ — canal, ditch, trench, channel, a canal, a ditch
- ΔΙΩΡΥΓΑΣ — canals, ditches, trenches, channels
- ΔΙΩΡΥΓΕΣ — ditches, trenches, canals, channels
- ΔΙΩΡΥΓΟΣ — of a trench, of a ditch, of a canal, of a channel
- ΔΙΩΡΥΞ — ditch, canal, trench, a ditch, a canal, a trench
- ΔΙΩΡΥΞΙΝ — to a trench, to a canal, to a ditch, to a mine, to a tunnel, to a channel
- ΔΙΩΡΥΧΕΣ — canal, trench, ditch, channel
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