Lexicon opé: an opening, a hole Original Word: ὀπή, ῆς, ἡPart of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: opé Phonetic Spelling: (op-ay') Short Definition: a crevice, cave Definition: a crevice (in a rock), a cave, an opening, hole. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originprobably from a prim. root op- (cf. horaó) Definitionan opening, a hole NASB Translationholes (1), opening (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3692: ὀπήὀπή, ὀπῆς, ἡ (perhaps from ὄψ (root ὀπ (see ὁράω); cf. Curtius, § 627)), properly, through which one can see ( Pollux (2, 53, p. 179) ὀπή, δἰ ἧς ἐστιν ἰδεῖν, cf. German Luke, Loch (?)), an opening, aperture (used of a window, Song of Solomon 5:4): of fissures in the earth, James 3:11 ( Exodus 33:22); of caves in rocks or mountains, Hebrews 11:38 (here R. V. holes); Obadiah 1:3. (Of various other kinds of holes and openings, in Aristophanes, Aristotle, others.)
Strong's cave, place. Probably from optanomai; a hole (as if for light), i.e. Cavern; by analogy, a spring (of water) -- cave, place. see GREEK optanomai |
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