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Strong’s G3736 · Greek

ὀρύσσω

orýssō · or-oos'-so

Origin apparently a primary verb;

Meaning to "burrow" in the ground, i.e. dig

In the King James Version dig.

In 3 verses of the King James Version

  1. Matthew 21:33Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
  2. Matthew 25:18But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord’s money.
  3. Mark 12:1And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.

From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.

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