ἘΞΟΡΥΞΑΙ, ἐξορυξαι
EXORYXAI, exoryxai
Sounds Like: ex-OR-y-xai
Translations: to dig out, to gouge out, to pluck out, to excavate
From the root: ἘΞΟΡΥΣΣΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word means to dig out, to gouge out, or to pluck out. It implies a forceful or complete removal of something by digging or extraction. It can be used in contexts where something is physically removed from the ground or from a body, such as eyes being gouged out.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Infinitive
Strong’s number: G1846 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 6 — 5:71
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Samuel — 11:2
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ἘΞΟΡΥΣΣΩ.
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.
- ἘΞΟΡΥΞΑΝΤΕΣ — having dug out, digging out, having gouged out, gouging out
- ἘΞΩΡΥΞΕΝ — dug out, dug up, excavated, plucked out, gouged out
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