G2991: λαξευτός (laxeutós)

G2991 λαξευτός (laxeutós)

Greek

Quick Definition

λαξευτός, ή, όν Adj hewn out of the rock

Strong's Definition

from a compound of las (a stone) and the base of 3584 (in its original sense of scraping); rock-quarried

KJV Usage: hewn in stone

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

λαξευτός (G2991)

adjc. | -ή, -όν | λᾶς + ξέω

19.26 · Physical Impact · Pierce, Cut

hewn out of rock pertaining to having been hewn out of rock In LUK 23:53 ‘rock’ must be understood as a basic outcropping of rock, so that the grave would have been a cave-like structure cut into a rock outcropping.

LUK 23:53

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

λαξευτός, -7, -dv, (fr. λαξεύω, and this fr. λᾶς a stone, and ξέω to polish, hew), cut out of stone: μνῆμα, Lk. xxiii. 53, and thence in Evang. Nicod. e. 11 fin.; (once in Sept., Deut. iv. 49; Aquila in Num. xxi. 20; xxiii. 14; Deut. xxxiv. 1; [ Josh. xiii. 20]; nowhere in Grk. auth.).

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

λαξευτός laxeutos 1x

cut in stone, hewn out of stone or rock, Lk. 23:53*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

† λαξευτός, -ή, όν

(< λαξεύω; < λᾶς, a stone, ξέω, to scrape), [in LXX: De 4:49 (פִּסְגָּה); in Aq.: Nu 21:20; Th.: Jg 7:11*;]

hewn (in stone); Lk 23:53 (elsewhere κοινή writers use λατομητός, IV Ki 12:12, al.; cf. λατομέω).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

λαξευτός. The verb λαξεύω (LXX) is restored by the editors with great probability in a contract with stonecutters P Oxy III. 498% (ii/A.D.) τὰ δὲ προκείμενα πάντα al. . . λαἸξ[εύσο]μεν, ‘‘all the aforesaid stones we will cut ’’: cf. also P Thead 14° (iv/A.D.) τ]ὸ ἐκτὸς ἐλάξευται in a very mutilated context. Adé£os (not in LS), ‘‘a stone-mason,” is fairly common in the papyri, as e.g. in the early i/A.D. alphabet acrostic P Tebt 11. 278% κλειτοποίς λάξος μυλοκόπος, ‘locksmith, mason, millstone-maker,’’ and in the censusreturn P Oxy XII. 154738 (a.D. 119) AdEos οὐ(λὴ) ποδὶ ἀρισ(repo) : cf. also P Amh 11. 1288 (a.p. 128) with the editors’ note. For the subst. λαξεία (not in LS), see P Oxy III. 498° (ut s.) ἐπιδεχόμεθα λαξείαν τῶν οἰκοδομουμένων λίθων κύβων, “we undertake to cut the squared building-stones” (Edd.), and for the adj. λαξικός (also unknown to LS), τό. 33 ὑπουργίας λαξικῆς, ‘services in stone-cutting ” (Edd.), In P Fay 445 (B.c. 16 ?) τὰ λαξικά is the tax paid by a mason on his trade. Aaodixerts. Michel 1648 (c. B.C. 140) ᾿Απολλώνιος Δημητρίου ΛαοδιKes, 76. 543+ (c. B.C. 200) Td παρ]ὰ Λαοδικέων, a decree from the Laodiceans.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

λαξευτός (laxeutos) — engraved. λαξ-ευτός, ή, όν, hewn out of the rock, [LXX+NT]