Lexical Summary ophrys: an eyebrow Original Word: ὀφρῦςTransliteration: ophrys Phonetic Spelling: (of-roos') Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: an eyebrow Meaning: an eyebrow Strong's Concordance brow. Perhaps from optanomai (through the idea of the shading or proximity to the organ of vision); the eye-"brow" or forehead, i.e. (figuratively) the brink of a precipice -- brow. see GREEK optanomai Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 3790: ὀφρύςὀφρύς, ὀφρύος, ἡ, 1. the eyebrow, so from Homer down. 2. any prominence or projection; as (English the brow) of a mountain (so the Latinsupercilium, Vergil, georg. 1, 108; Hirtius, bell. afr. 58; Livy 27, 18; 34, 29): Luke 4:29 (Homer, Iliad 20, 151; often in Polybius, Plutarch, others). STRONGS NT 3790a: ὀχετός [ὀχετός, ὀχετου, ὁ, 1. a water-pipe, duct. 2. the intestinal canal: Mark 7:19 WH (rejected) marginal reading (others, ἀφεδρών).] |
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