Lexical Summary laxeutos: hewn (in stone) Original Word: λαξευτόςTransliteration: laxeutos Phonetic Spelling: (lax-yoo-tos') Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: hewn (in stone) Meaning: hewn (in stone) Strong's Concordance 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 Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2991: λαξευτόςλαξευτός, 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). |