adjective
trachuos
Strong’sG5138
rough
stem trachu-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 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.
τραχύς, -εῖα, -ύ
[in LXX: Is 40:4 (רֶכֶס), etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5138 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtrakh-oos'
uneven, rocky (reefy)
Fromperhaps strengthened from the base of G4486 (as if jagged by rents);
King Jamesrock, rough.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Epic dialect and Ionic dialect τρηχύς, feminine -εῖα, -εῖαν, -είης, neuter -ύ Refs 8th c.BC+; in Ionic dialect Prose feminine τρηχέᾰ, accusative τρηχέᾰν, genitive τρηχέης, dative τρηχέῃ (imperfectly preserved in codices; in Refs 5th c.BC+ RSV have -εῖα, -εῖαν, -είη; for codices Refs 5th c.BC+; τρηχείην (before consonant) Refs 4th c.BC+; τρηχείης (as proper name) Refs 6th c.BC+; genitive plural neuter ἐρίων.. τρηχείων Refs; dual in Trag. τραχεῖ, Ion Trag.67:—jagged, λίθος Refs 8th c.BC+; χαλινοί, opposed to λεῖοι, Refs 5th c.BC+; prickly, ἄκανθαι, ἄκανθα, Refs 1st c.AD+; rugged, ἀκτή, ἀταρπός, Refs 8th c.BC+; as epithet of Ithaca, Refs 5th c.BC+; and frequently in Trag. and Attic dialect of rocky districts, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ τραχέα, τὰ τραχύτατα, Refs 5th c.BC+; also, rough, γλῶσσα Refs 5th c.BC+; ἔρια Refs 3rd c.BC+; σινδόνες (towels, opposed to μαλακαί) Refs 2nd c.AD+; shaggy, τὰ κάτωθεν τ. καὶ τραγοειδής, of Pan, Refs 5th c.BC+; τ. σώματα, opposed to λεῖα, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the voice, harsh, Refs 5th c.BC+; especially of the voice of boys, when it breaks, μεταβάλλειν ἐπὶ τὸ -ύτερον Refs 4th c.BC+; and of a person, τῇ φωνῇ τ. Refs 5th c.BC+; also τραχυτάτη γλῶσσα (compare τραχύστομος) Refs 1st c.BC+; of sounds and their combinations, harsh, opposed to λεῖος, σύνθεσις, διάλεκτος, Refs 1st c.BC+ —on τραχεῖα ἀρτηρία, see at {ἀρτηρία}.
2 of battle and conflict, ὑσμίνη Refs 8th c.BC+
3 of natural forces, ῥόθιον Refs 5th c.BC+; of a river, Refs 3rd c.BC+
4 of persons, their acts, feelings, or conditions, rough, harsh, savage, τ. ἔφεδρος Refs 5th c.BC+; οὐ τ. εἰμι καταθέμεν I am not niggardly in paying,Refs 5th c.BC+; τὸ τ. τοῦ ἤθους, τοῦ νόμου, Refs 5th c.BC+; εὐνομίη τραχέα λειαίνει smooths the rough places, Refs 6th c.BC+
II adverb τρᾱχέως, Ionic dialect τρηχέως, rare in the literal sense, roughly, τ. ὑλακτεῖν Refs 1st c.AD+; neuter as adverb, τρηχὺ φωνῇ ἠπείλει Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.2 of men's acts, τρηχέως περιέπειν τινά handle roughly, Refs 5th c.BC+; τραχέως ἔχειν to be rough, harshly disposed, Refs 5th c.BC+; τινι Refs 5th c.BC+; τ. φέρειν take hardly, Refs; rarely τραχυτέρως, Refs 5th 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 | trachuos | trachuas | trachuem | trachuois | trachuais1×τραχεῖαι | trachueim |
| object accusative | trachuon | trachuan | trachuoin1×τραχεῖς | trachuain | ||
| direct address vocative | trachuor | trachuar | trachuoir | trachuair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | trachuou | trachuau | trachueu | trachuoiu | trachuaiu | trachueiu |
| to, for dative | trachuo | trachua | trachue | trachuoi | trachuai | trachuei |
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
trachu 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
trachuoin“rocks”objectaccusative plural1×
Acts 27:29foborōntois tē mē pou kata trachuoin topoin ekpiptaneia ek prumnau riptarantois ankurain …… we would run aground on the rocks, they dropped four anchors from the …
trachuais“rough”subjectnominative plural1×
Luke 3:5… teim skolieim eis euthuan kai tais trachuais eis hodain leiain;… shall be made straight, and the rough ways smooth.