Quick Definition
ὀρεινός, ή, όν Adj mountainous, hilly
Strong's Definition
from 3735; mountainous, i.e. (feminine by implication, of 5561) the Highlands (of Judaea)
KJV Usage: hill country
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
ὀρεινός, -7, -όν, (pos), mountainous, hilly; ἡ ὀρεινή [WH dpwn, see I, 47] sc. χώρα [ef. W. 591 (550)] (which is added in Hdt. 1, 110; Xen. Cyr. 1, 8, 3), the mountaindistrict, hill-country: Lk. i. 39, 65, (Aristot. ἢ. a. 5, 28, 4; Sept. for ὙΠ, Gen. xiv. 10; Deut. xi. 11; Josh. ii. 16, etc.).
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
ὀρεινός oreinos 2x
mountainous, hilly, Lk. 1:39, 65*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
ὀρεινός (WH, ὀριν-; v. MM, xviii,) -ή, -όν
(< ὄρος),
mountainous, hilly; ἡ ὀ. (sc. χώρα), the hill-country (LXX for הַר): Lk 1:39, 65.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
ὀρεινός. The itacistic form ὀρινός, which is read by WH in Lk 1°9, © is amply attested in the papyri, where the word is regularly used to describe all canals on the border of the desert, e.g. P Strass I. 174 (A.D. 124) ἐν ὀρινῇ (sc. διώρυχι) ἸΠατσώντ(εως) Βακχίιάδος), the desert canal of Patsontis at Bacchias’’ (see the editor’s Introd.). See also Aristeas 107, 118, and cf. s.v. ὄρος. “on
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
ὀρεινός (oreinos) — hilly. ὀρεινός, ή, όν, (ὄρος) mountainous, hilly, χώρη [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to πεδινός, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to πεδιάς, [Refs 4th c.BC+]hill-country, [Refs]
II. of or from the mountains, dwelling on the mountains, οἱ ὀ. Θρᾶκες [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of birds, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; of plants, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τὸ ἄγριον καὶ τὸ ὀ. his wild and mountain nature, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. in Egypt, belonging to the edge of the desert, especially as epithet of canals, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]