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Entry for Strong's #3692 - ὀπή
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Transliteration
opḗ
Phonetics
op-ay'
Word Origin
probably from (3700)
Parts of Speech
Noun Feminine
TDNT
None
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Liddell-Scott-Jones Definitions
ὀπή, ἡ, I 1. opening, hole, ὀπὰς γὰρ εἶχεν οὐκ ὀλίγας [τὸ τριβώνιον] Ar. Pl. 715; a mouse's hole, Sannyr. 8; of holes in the earth, Arist. HA 559a4, al.; in a door, Luc. Asin. 52; in a rock, LXX Exodus 33:22; of an orifice in the body, Poll. 5.73; ἡ ὀπὴ τῶν ὤτων Id. 2.84 (cod. B). 2. hole in the roof, serving as a chimney, = κάπνη, καπνοδόκη, Ar. V. 317 (lyr.), 350; καὶ δι' ὀπῆς κἀπὶ τέγους Id. Fr. 11, cf. Xenarch. 4.11. II pl., in Archit., holes in the frieze left to receive the beam-ends, Vitr. 4.2.4; later, of windows, lights in doors, αἱ ὀ. τῶν τοίχων Ptol. ap. Simp. in Cael. 710.21; σιδήρια ἐξ ὀπῆς IG 4.39 (Aegina, v B. C.). III (ὄψομαι, ὄπωπα) sight, τοὶ μήτ' ἀκουὰν μήτ' ὀπὰν πεπαμένοι Cerc. 4.23. |
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Thayer's Expanded Definition
ὀπή, ὀπῆς, ἡ (perhaps from ὄψ (root ὀπ (see ὁράω); cf. Curtius, § 627)), properly, through which one can see (Pollux (2, 53, p. 179) ὀπή, δἰ ἧς ἐστιν ἰδεῖν, cf. German Luke, Loch (?)), an opening, aperture (used of a window, Song of Solomon 5:4): of fissures in the earth, James 3:11 (Exodus 33:22); of caves in rocks or mountains, Hebrews 11:38 (here R. V. holes); Obadiah 1:3. (Of various other kinds of holes and openings, in Aristophanes, Aristotle, others.) Thayer's Expanded Greek Definition, Electronic Database.
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Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament
ἀπή , -ῆς , ἡ , [in LXX for H2356, H2288, etc.;] an opening, a hole: James 3:11 (cf. Exodus 33:22), Hebrews 11:33 (cf. Obadiah 1:3).† Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament.
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Vocabulary of the Greek NT
For this word, which is not found elsewhere than in Acts 17:5, Hobart (p. 230) compares the phrase ὄχλον ποιέει from Hippocrates (Morb. Mul. 597).
The Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament.
Copyright © 1914, 1929, 1930 by James Hope Moulton and George Milligan. Hodder and Stoughton, London. Derivative Copyright © 2015 by Allan Loder. |
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List of Word Forms
οπαις οπαίς ὀπαῖς οπή οπήν οπης οπής ὀπῆς οπήτιον οπητίω οπών opais opaîs opes opês opēs opē̂s
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