Latomeo means “hew” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2998 — yibniah (“Ibnijah”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2998 λατομέω (latomeo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. latomeo (lat-om-eh'-o) v. 1. to quarry [from las "a stone" and the base of G5114] It has 11 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include stone. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
latomeo (lat-om-eh'-o) v. 1. to quarry [from las "a stone" and the base of G5114] KJV: hew Root(s): G5114 See also: G2991
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2998. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to hew
Usage: λατομέω, -ῶ (λατόμος, a stonecutter, 4Ki.12:12, al.; λᾶς, τέμνω; cf. λαξευτός) [in LXX: 1Ch.22:2, al. (חָצַב); Exo.21:33, Num_21:18 (כָּרָה) ;] to hew, hew out stones: Mat.27:60, Mrk.15:46.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render latomeo, 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 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and New 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 G2998 (λατομέω) appears 9 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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2 indexed usages in New Testament.
And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
9 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And if anyone open a pit or dig a cavity in stone, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall in there,
houses full of all good things which thou didst not fill, wells dug in the rock which thou didst not dig, vineyards and olive yards which thou didst not plant, then having eaten and been filled,
First 11 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2998.
And if anyone open a pit or dig a cavity in stone, and cover it not, and an ox or an ass fall in there,
houses full of all good things which thou didst not fill, wells dug in the rock which thou didst not dig, vineyards and olive yards which thou didst not plant, then having eaten and been filled,
And David gave orders to gather all the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he appointed stone hewers to hew polished stones to build the house to God.
And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many wells, for he had many cattle in the low country and in the plain; and vinedressers in the mountain country and in Carmel: for he was a husbandman.
And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
For iron comes out of the earth, And brass is hewn out like stone.
and what hast thou to do here, that thou hast here hewn thyself a sepulcher, and madest thyself a sepulcher on high, and hast graven for thyself a dwelling in the rock?
Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, and seek the Lord: look to the solid rock, which ye have hewn, and to the hole of the pit which ye have dug.
And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
And he bought fine linen, and took him down, and wrapped him in the linen, and laid him in a sepulchre which was hewn out of a rock, and rolled a stone unto the door of the sepulchre.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2998, grouped by book.
Latomeo (Strong's G2998) is a Greek word most simply glossed "hew". latomeo (lat-om-eh'-o) v. 1. to quarry [from las "a stone" and the base of G5114]
This page currently indexes 11 linked usages for Strong's G2998 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2998 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 9 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G2998, with linked reader references where each row is available.