adjective
oreinas
Strong’sG3714
mountainous, hilly
stem orein-2 times in the New Testament2 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ὀρεινός (WH, ὀριν-; v. MM, xviii,) -ή, -όν
(< ὄρος),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3714 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(ὄρος) mountainous, hilly, χώρη Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to πεδινός, Refs 5th c.BC+; opposed to πεδιάς, Refs 4th c.BC+hill-country, Refs
II of or from the mountains, dwelling on the mountains, οἱ ὀ. Θρᾶκες Refs 5th c.BC+; of birds, Refs 4th c.BC+; of plants, Refs 4th c.BC+; τὸ ἄγριον καὶ τὸ ὀ. his wild and mountain nature, Refs 5th c.BC+
III in Egypt, belonging to the edge of the desert, especially as epithet of canals, Refs 2nd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | oreinos | oreinas | oreinem | oreinois | oreinais | oreineim |
| object accusative | oreinon | oreinan1×ὀρεινὴν | oreinoin | oreinain | ||
| direct address vocative | oreinor | oreinar | oreinoir | oreinair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | oreinou | oreinau | oreineu | oreinoiu | oreinaiu | oreineiu |
| to, for dative | oreino | oreina1×ὀρεινῇ | oreine | oreinoi | oreinai | oreinei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
orein is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
oreinan“hill country”objectaccusative singular1×
Luke 1:39… tai hēmerai houtai poreuita eis tan oreinan meta spoudau eis polan Ioudou,… hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah,
oreina“hill country”to, fordative singular1×
Luke 1:65… perioikarōntoin autoin, kai en hola ta oreina tau Ioudaiau dialalote panteim teim rēmeim …… with awe, and people throughout the hill country of Judea were talking about these …