Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
to dig
Usage: ὀρύσσω [in LXX chiefly for חָפַר also for כָּרָה, etc. ;] to dig: with accusative, ληνόν, Mat.21:33; ὁπολήνιον, Mrk.12:1; γῆν, Mat.25:18 (cf. δι-, ἐξ-ορύσσω).† (AS)
Orysso means “dig” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3736 — karbel (“clothed”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3736 ὀρύσσω (orusso) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. orusso (ohr-oos'-so) v. 1. to "burrow" in the ground, i.e. dig [apparently a primary verb] It has 35 linked Bible usages across 16 books. Visible English usage signals include dug, well, father, into, and water. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
orusso (ohr-oos'-so) v. 1. to "burrow" in the ground, i.e. dig [apparently a primary verb] KJV: dig
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to dig
Usage: ὀρύσσω [in LXX chiefly for חָפַר also for כָּרָה, etc. ;] to dig: with accusative, ληνόν, Mat.21:33; ὁπολήνιον, Mrk.12:1; γῆν, Mat.25:18 (cf. δι-, ἐξ-ορύσσω).† (AS)
Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. 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 G3736 (ὀρύσσω) appears 34 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
26 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Abraham said, Thou shalt receive the seven ewe lambs of me, that they may be for me as a witness, that I dug this well.
And all the wells which the servants of his father had dug in the time of his father, the Philistines stopped them, and filled them with earth.
And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraham had dug, and the Philistines had stopped them, after the death of his father Abraham; and he gave them names, according to the names by which his father named them.
5 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Therefore I wept: and after the going down of the sun I went and made a grave, and buried him.
saying, I fear lest he also be dead.
But when Raguel was come into his house,
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
off your necks and slay you, and have no mercy upon you. Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you. Woe to you who set at nought the words of
First 35 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3736.
And Abraham said, Thou shalt receive the seven ewe lambs of me, that they may be for me as a witness, that I dug this well.
And all the wells which the servants of his father had dug in the time of his father, the Philistines stopped them, and filled them with earth.
And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraham had dug, and the Philistines had stopped them, after the death of his father Abraham; and he gave them names, according to the names by which his father named them.
And the servants of Isaac dug in the Valley of Gerar, and they found there a well of living water.
And having departed thence he dug another well, and they strove also for that; and he named the name of it, Enmity.
And he departed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive about that; and he named the name of it, Room, saying, Because now the Lord has made room for us, and has increased us upon the earth.
And he built there an altar, and called on the name of the Lord, and there he pitched his tent, and there the servants of Isaac dug a well in the Valley of Gerar.
And it came to pass in that day, that the servants of Isaac came and told him of the well which they had dug; and they said, We have not found water.
My father adjured me, saying, In the sepulcher which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there thou shalt bury me; now then I will go up and bury my father, and return again.
The princes dug it, The kings of the nations in their kingdom, In their lordship sank it in the rock: and they went from the well to Mattanah,
and thou shalt have a trowel on thy girdle; and it shall come to pass when thou wouldest relieve thyself abroad, that thou shalt dig with it, and shalt bring back the earth and cover thy nuisance.
And they buried him in the sepulcher which he had dug for himself in the city of David, and they laid him on a bed, and filled it with spices and all kinds of perfumes of the apothecaries; and they made for him a very great funeral.
He has opened a pit, and dug it up, And he shall fall into the ditch which he has made.
For many dogs have compassed me: The assembly of the wicked doers has beset me round: They pierced my hands and my feet.
They have prepared snares for my feet, And have bowed down my soul: They have dug a pit before my face, And fallen into it themselves. Pause.
To give him rest from evil days, Until a pit be dug for the sinful one.
But the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth: A foolish man digs up evil for himself, And treasures fire on his own lips.
He that digs a pit shall fall into it; And him that breaks down a hedge a serpent shall bite.
And I made a hedge round it, and dug a trench, and planted a choice vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and dug a place for the wine vat in it: and I waited for it to bring forth grapes, and it brought forth thorns.
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.
For my people has committed two faults, and evil ones: they have forsaken me, the fountain of water of life, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.
So I went to the river Euphrates, and dug, and took the girdle out of the place where I had buried it: and, behold, it was rotten, utterly good for nothing.
And he said to me, Son of man, dig: so I dug, and behold a door.
For as for the stone which I have set before the face of Joshua, on the one stone are seven eyes: behold, I am digging a trench, saith the Lord Almighty, and I will search out all the iniquity of that land in one day.
Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
But he that had received one went and digged in the earth, and hid his lord's money.
And he began to speak unto them by parables. A certain man planted a vineyard, and set an hedge about it, and digged a place for the winefat, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country.
Therefore I wept: and after the going down of the sun I went and made a grave, and buried him.
saying, I fear lest he also be dead.
But when Raguel was come into his house,
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein: And he that setteth a trap shall be taken therein.
Hezekiah fortified his city, And brought in water into the midst thereof: He dug the hard rock with iron, And made wells for waters.
off your necks and slay you, and have no mercy upon you. Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you. Woe to you who set at nought the words of
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3736, grouped by book.
Orysso (Strong's G3736) is a Greek word most simply glossed "dig". orusso (ohr-oos'-so) v. 1. to "burrow" in the ground, i.e. dig [apparently a primary verb]
This page currently indexes 35 linked usages for Strong's G3736 across 16 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3736 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as dug, well, father, into, water, and made. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 26 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 5 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G3736, with linked reader references where each row is available.