ὨΡΥΣΣΕΝ, ὠρυσσεν
ŌRYSSEN, ōryssen
Sounds Like: oh-ROO-sen
Translations: he dug, she dug, it dug, to dig
From the root: ὈΡΥΣΣΩ
Part of Speech: Verb
Explanation: This word is an inflected form of the verb 'to dig'. It describes the action of digging, excavating, or hollowing out something. It is used to indicate that a single person or thing performed the action of digging in the past.
Inflection: Aorist, Indicative, Active, 3rd Person Singular
Strong’s number: G3736 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 1 — 18:261
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ὈΡΥΣΣΩ.
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.
- ὈΡΥΞΟΝ — dig, dig out, excavate
- ὈΡΥΣΣΕΙ — dig, excavate, mine, burrow
- ὈΡΥΣΣΟΝΤΕΣ — digging, those who dig, while digging
- ὈΡΥΣΣΩ — dig, excavate, burrow
- ὈΡΥΤΤΕΙ — digs, he digs, she digs, it digs
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