Laxeutos means “hewn in stone” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2991 — yibleam (“Ibleam”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2991 λαξευτός (laxeutos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. laxeutos (lax-yoo-tos') adj. 1. rock-quarried [from a compound of las "a stone" and the base of G3584 (in its original sense of scraping)] It has 2 linked Bible usages across 2 books. Visible English usage signals include stone. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
laxeutos (lax-yoo-tos') adj. 1. rock-quarried [from a compound of las "a stone" and the base of G3584 (in its original sense of scraping)] KJV: hewn in stone Root(s): G3584
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2991. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
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Usage: λαξευτός, -ή, όν (λαξεύω; λᾶς, a stone, ξέω, to scrape), [in LXX: Deu.4:49 (פִּסְגָּה); in Aq.: Num.21:20; Th.: Jdg.7:11 * ;] hewn (in stone); Luk.23:53 (elsewhere κοινή writers use λατομητός, 4Ki.12:12, al.; cf. λατομέω).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render laxeutos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G2991 (λαξευτός) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
All Arabah beyond Jordan eastward under Asedoth hewn in the rock.
First 2 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2991.
All Arabah beyond Jordan eastward under Asedoth hewn in the rock.
And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2991, grouped by book.
Laxeutos (Strong's G2991) is a Greek word most simply glossed "hewn in stone". laxeutos (lax-yoo-tos') adj. 1. rock-quarried [from a compound of las "a stone" and the base of G3584 (in its original sense of scraping)]
This page currently indexes 2 linked usages for Strong's G2991 across 2 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2991 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as stone. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G2991, with linked reader references where each row is available.