ΚΑΤΩΡΥΞΑΝ, κατωρυξαν
KATŌRYXAN, katōryxan
Sounds Like: kah-TOH-rook-san
Translations: they buried, they dug down, they interred
From the root: ΚΑΤΟΡΥΣΣΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is the third person plural aorist active indicative form of the verb ΚΑΤΟΡΥΣΣΩ (katorussō), meaning "to bury" or "to dig down." It is a compound verb formed from the preposition ΚΑΤΑ (kata), meaning "down," and the verb ΟΡΥΣΣΩ (orussō), meaning "to dig." It describes an action completed in the past, specifically that a group of people performed the act of burying or digging down.
Inflection: Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd Person Plural
Strong’s number: G2692 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Joshua — 24:32
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΑΤΟΡΥΣΣΩ.
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.
- ΚΑΤΟΡΥΓΩΣΙΝ — they will bury, they may bury, they might bury, they will dig down, they may dig down, they might dig down
- ΚΑΤΟΡΥΞΑΝΤΑ — having dug down, having buried, who dug down, who buried
- ΚΑΤΟΡΥΤΤΕΤΕ — bury, hide, dig down, entomb
- ΚΑΤΟΡΩΡΥΓΜΕΝΟΝ — buried, dug down, hidden underground, a buried thing
- ΚΑΤΩΡΥΞΑ — I buried, they buried, I dug down, they dug down
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