Strong's Greek: 2991. λαξευτός (laxeutos) -- hewn (in stone)

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laxeutos: hewn (in stone)

Original Word: λαξευτός, ή, όν
Part of Speech: Adjective
Transliteration: laxeutos
Phonetic Spelling: (lax-yoo-tos')
Short Definition: hewn out of the rock
Definition: hewn out of the rock.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from a comp. of laas (a stone) and xeó (to scrape)
Definition
hewn (in stone)
NASB Translation
cut into the rock (1).

Thayer's

STRONGS NT 2991: λαξευτός

λαξευτός, λαξευτη, λαξευτον (from λαξεύω, and this from λᾶς a stone, and ξέω to polish, hew), cut out of stone: μνῆμα, Luke 23:53, and thence in Evang. Nicod. c. 11 at the end; (once in the Sept., Deuteronomy 4:49; Aq. in Numbers 21:20; Numbers 23:14; Deuteronomy 34:1; (Joshua 13:20); nowhere in Greek authors).

Strong's

hewn in stone.

From a compound of las (a stone) and the base of xeros (in its original sense of scraping); rock-quarried -- hewn in stone.

see GREEK xeros