Original Word: ἐξορύσσω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: exorussó
Pronunciation: ex-or-OOS-so
Phonetic Spelling: (ex-or-oos'-so)
KJV: break up, pluck out
NASB: dug, plucked
Word Origin: [from G1537 (ἐκ - among) and G3736 (ὀρύσσω - dug)]

1. to dig out
2. (by extension) to extract (an eye), remove (roofing)

extract, pluck out.

From ek and orusso; to dig out, i.e. (by extension) to extract (an eye), remove (roofing) -- break up, pluck out.

see GREEK ek

see GREEK orusso

Word Origin
from ek and orussó
Definition
to dig out or up
NASB Translation
dug (1), plucked (1).

STRONGS NT 1846: ἐξορύσσω

ἐξορύσσω: 1 aorist participle ἐξορύξαντες; from Herodotus down;

1. to dig out: τούς ὀφθαλμούς (properly, to pluck out the eyes; so Judges 16:21 (Alex.); 1 Samuel 11:2; Herodotus 8, 116; Josephus, Antiquities 6, 5, 1; Lucian, dial. deor. 1, 1; others) καί διδόναι τίνι, metaphorically, to renounce the most precious things for another's advantage, Galatians 4:15 (similar expressions see in Terence, adelph. 4, 5, 67; Horace sat. 2, 5, 35; (Wetstein at the passage)); in opposition to a very few interpretaters who, assuming that Paul suffered from a weakness of the eyes, understand the words literally, Ye would have plucked out your sound eyes and have put them into me, see Meyer at the passage; (cf. references under the word σκόλοψ, at the end).

2. to dig through: τήν στέγην, Mark 2:4.

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