Quick Definition
τραχύς, εῖα, ύ Adj rough
Strong's Definition
uneven, rocky (reefy)
Derivation: perhaps strengthened from the base of G4486 (ῥήγνυμι) (as if jagged by rents);
KJV Usage: rock, rough
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
τραχύς, -eia, -v, fr. Hom. down, rough: ὁδοί, Lk. iii. 5 ; τόποι, rocky places (in the sea), Acts xxvii. 29.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
τραχύς trachus 2x
rough, rugged, uneven, Lk. 3:5; εἰς τραχεῖς τόπους, on a rocky shore, Acts 27:29*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
τραχύς, -εῖα, -ύ
[in LXX: Is 40:4 (רֶכֶס), etc. ;]
rough: ὁδοί (Is, l.c.), Lk 3:5 (LXX); τοποί (i.e. rocky), Ac 27:29.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
τραχύς, “rough.” For this adj., confined in the NT to Lk 35 LXX, Ac 2735, cf. the medical prescription, P Tebt II. 273 (ii/ili A.D.), which is headed—mpbds τὰ τρ[αἸχέα βλέφα[ρ]α (see the introd.). Other exx. are PSI V. 535° (iii/B.c.) σπόγγοι τραχεῖς, P Cairo Zen I. 59083 (B.C. 257) χῆμαι λεῖαι καὶ tpaxeifat, ‘smooth and rough cockles,’’ and Syll 540 (=% 972)? (B.c. 175-172) EolSo0s . . . τραχείας. The adj. is applied to a person in Vett. Val. p. 1044, τραχεῖα μήτηρ. τρεῖς. The phraseology of such passages as Mk 67 (δύο δύο), 9 (συμπόσια συμπόσια) and 1° (πρασιαὶ πρασιαί) has hitherto been generally put down to Hebraistic influence. But apart from the fact that the idiom is found in classical Greek (Soph. Fyagm. 201 μίαν μίαν, Aesch. Persae 980 μυρία μυρία), and the LXX (Gen γ15 δύο δύο, a/.), and survives in ΜΟΥ (cf. Thumb Hellen. p. 128, Handb. § 132), it can now be paralleled from the papyri. A good ex. is P Oxy I. 1211}9 (iii/A.D.) τοὺς κλάδους ἔνικον (1. ἔνεγκον) εἰς τὴν ὁδὸν πάντα (1 πάντας) εἵνα δήσῃ τρία τρία Ke (1 καὶ) ἑλκύσῃ, “‘carry all the branches into the road and have them tied together by threes and dragged along’”’ (Edd.): cf. 2. VI. 88619 (iii/A.D.) épe (Δ atpe) kata δύο δύο, “lift up (the leaves) two by two”’ (the editors compare Lk 101), and 7d. 940° (v/A.D.) ἔχε ἐγγὺς σοῦ μίαν μίαν, “keep him at hand together with you”’ (za: see the editors’ note). But while this is true, the independence of Hebrew must not be carried 284, “‘it is a too far. According to Robertson Gy. p.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
τραχύς (trachus) — rough. τρᾱχ-ύς, εῖα, ύ: Epic dialect and Ionic dialect τρηχύς, feminine -εῖα, -εῖαν, -είης, neuter -ύ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; in Ionic dialect Prose feminine τρηχέᾰ, accusative τρηχέᾰν, genitive τρηχέης, dative τρηχέῃ (imperfectly preserved in codices; in [Refs 5th c.BC+] RSV have -εῖα, -εῖαν, -είη; for codices [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τρηχείην (before consonant) [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τρηχείης (as proper name) [Refs 6th c.BC+]; genitive plural neuter ἐρίων.. τρηχείων [Refs]; dual in Trag. τραχεῖ, Ion Trag.67:—jagged, λίθος [Refs 8th c.BC+]; χαλινοί, opposed to λεῖοι, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; prickly, ἄκανθαι, ἄκανθα, [Refs 1st c.AD+]; rugged, ἀκτή, ἀταρπός, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; as epithet of Ithaca, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; and frequently in Trag. and Attic dialect of rocky districts, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὰ τραχέα, τὰ τραχύτατα, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also, rough, γλῶσσα [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἔρια [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; σινδόνες (towels, opposed to μαλακαί) [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; shaggy, τὰ κάτωθεν τ. καὶ τραγοειδής, of Pan, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. σώματα, opposed to λεῖα, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the voice, harsh, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; especially of the voice of boys, when it breaks, μεταβάλλειν ἐπὶ τὸ -ύτερον [Refs 4th c.BC+]; and of a person, τῇ φωνῇ τ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also τραχυτάτη γλῶσσα (compare τραχύστομος) [Refs 1st c.BC+]; of sounds and their combinations, harsh, opposed to λεῖος, σύνθεσις, διάλεκτος, [Refs 1st c.BC+] —on τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία, see at {ἀρτηρία}.
2. of battle and conflict, ὑσμίνη [Refs 8th c.BC+]
3. of natural forces, ῥόθιον [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of a river, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
4. of persons, their acts, feelings, or conditions, rough, harsh, savage, τ. ἔφεδρος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ τ. εἰμι καταθέμεν I am not niggardly in paying,[Refs 5th c.BC+]; τὸ τ. τοῦ ἤθους, τοῦ νόμου, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εὐνομίη τραχέα λειαίνει smooths the rough places, [Refs 6th c.BC+]
II. adverb τρᾱχέως, Ionic dialect τρηχέως, rare in the literal sense, roughly, τ. ὑλακτεῖν [Refs 1st c.AD+]; neuter as adverb, τρηχὺ φωνῇ ἠπείλει [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
II.2. of men's acts, τρηχέως περιέπειν τινά handle roughly, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τραχέως ἔχειν to be rough, harshly disposed, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τινι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τ. φέρειν take hardly, [Refs]; rarely τραχυτέρως, [Refs 5th c.BC+]