λατομέω
to hew stone
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
1 distinct verse where G2998 appears in the Perfect tense, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Mark 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb λατομεω centers on the idea of “to hew stone.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Greek New Testament. The word gravitates to Matthew (50%), then Mark. Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 27:60. Dig into 2-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2998 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,678
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,678 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 2 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: He had hewn out 1×, Hewn 1×
- American Standard Version: He had hewn out 1×, Hewn 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Cut 1×, He had cut 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having been cut 1×, He had cut 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2998 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2998 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2998 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2998 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to cut stones, to hew out stones
Word origin
Derived from λαξευτος (laxeutós) (G2991) — stone-cut.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G2998 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| λελατομημένον lelatomēménon | Verb, Perfect, Passive, Participle, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Mark 15:46 | 1 |
| ἐλατόμησεν elatómēsen | Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular | Matthew 27:60 | 1 |
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word λατομεω appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 8 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 21:33 λατομέω
- Deuteronomy 6:11 λατομέω
- 1 Kings 2:35 λατομέω
- 1 Chronicles 22:2 λατομέω
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 λατομέω
- Ezra 19:25 λατομέω
- Job 28:2 λατομέω
- Isaiah 22:16 λατομέω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2998) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 21:33 λατομέω "If a man opens a pit, or if a man digs a pit and doesn't cover it, and a bull or a donkey falls into it,
- Deuteronomy 6:11 λατομέω and houses full of all good things, which you didn't fill, and cisterns dug out, which you didn't dig, vineyards and olive trees, which you didn't plant, and you shall eat and be full;
- 1 Kings 2:35 λατομέω The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
- 1 Kings 5:29 λατομέω
- 1 Chronicles 22:2 λατομέω David commanded to gather together the foreigners who were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew worked stones to build the house of God.
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 λατομέω He built towers in the wilderness, and hewed out many cisterns, for he had much cattle; in the lowland also, and in the plain: [and he had] farmers and vineyard keepers in the mountains and in the fruitful fields; for he loved farming.
- Ezra 19:25 λατομέω
- Job 28:2 λατομέω Iron is taken out of the earth, And copper is smelted out of the ore.
- Isaiah 22:16 λατομέω "What are you doing here? and who has you here, that you have hewed out a tomb here? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!"
- Isaiah 51:1 λατομέω Listen to me, you who follow after righteousness, you who seek Yahweh: look to the rock whence you were hewn, and to the hold of the pit whence you were dug.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2998) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
