STRONGS G1846:
ἐξορύσσω: 1 aorist participle
ἐξορύξαντες; from Herodotus down;
1. to dig out:
τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς (properly,
to pluck out the eyes; so
Judges 16:21 [
Alex.];
1 Samuel 11:2; Herodotus 8, 116; Josephus, Antiquities 6, 5, 1; Lucian, dial. deor. 1, 1; others)
καὶ διδόναι τινί, metaphorically, to renounce the most precious things for another's advantage,
Galatians 4:15 (similar expressions see in Terence, adelph. 4, 5, 67; Horace sat. 2, 5, 35; [Wetstein at the passage]); in opposition to a very few interpretaters who, assuming that Paul suffered from a weakness of the eyes, understand the words literally, "Ye would have plucked out your sound eyes and have put them into me," see Meyer at the passage; [cf. references under the word
σκόλοψ, at the end].
2. to dig through:
τὴν στέγην,
Mark 2:4.
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