Quick Definition
I hew stones
Strong's Definition
to quarry
Derivation: from the same as the first part of G2991 (λαξευτός) and the base of G5114 (τομώτερος);
KJV Usage: hew
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
λατομέω, λατόμω: 1 aorist ἐλατόμησα; perfect passive participle λελατομημενος; (from λατόμος a stone-cutter, and this from λᾶς a stone, and τέμνω); to cut stones, to hew out stones: Mat_27:60; Mar_15:46. (The Sept. several times for ηΘφΗα; once for λΘΜψΘδ, Exo_21:33 ff; Diodorus (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Strabo, others (cf. Sophocles Lexicon, under the word)), Justin Martyr.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
λατομέω latomeō 2x
to hew stones; to cut out of stone, hew from stone, Mat_27:60 ; Mar_15:46 ; Luk_23:53
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
† λατομέω , -ῶ
( < λατόμος , a stonecutter, 2Ki_12:12 , al. ; < λᾶς , τέμνω ; cf. λαξευτός ),
[in LXX : 1Ch_22:2 , al. ( H2672 ); Exo_21:33 , Num_21:18 ( H3738 );]
to hew, hew out stones: Mat_27:60 , Mar_15:46 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
λατομέω [page 371]
In a letter addressed by the quarrymen (οἱ λατόμοι ) in Paston to the architect Kleon, P Petr II. 4 (9) .3 (B.C. 255), they state that they have quarried out the rocks, and are now idle for want of slaves to clear the sand λελατόμητ [α ]ι ἤδη , νυνὶ δὲ ἀργοῦμεν διὰ τὸ μὴ ἔχειν σώμ [α ]τα ὥστε ἀνακαθᾶραι τὴν ἄμμον : cf. Syll 803 .25 (iii/B.C.) (λ )ατομήσας τὰ [ν ] πέτραν . For λατόμος see P Petr III. 47( a ) .2 εἰς λατόμους , OGIS 660 .3 (A.D. 14 37) λατόμων πάντων τῆς Αἰγύπτου , and for λατομία see P Hib I. 71 .7 (B.C. 245) a letter περὶ τ [ῶν ] ἀνακεχωρηκότων σωμάτων ἐκ τῆς ἐ̣[ν ] Κεφαλαῖς λατομίας , about the slaves who have gone on strike from the stone-quarry at Cephalae. Cf. also Wackernagel Hellenistica , p. 9 f., Anz Subsidia , p. 354 f. MGr λατομῶ .
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
λατομέω, -ῶ
(λατόμος, a stonecutter, 4Ki.12:12, al.; λᾶς, τέμνω; cf. λαξευτός) [in LXX: 1Ch.22:2, al. (חָצַב); Exo.21:33, Num_21:18 (כָּרָה) ;]
to hew, hew out stones: Mat.27:60, Mrk.15:46.†
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