Word Summary
oros: a mountain
Original Word: ὄροςTransliteration: oros
Phonetic Spelling: (or'-os)
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Short Definition: a mountain
Meaning: a mountain
Strong's Concordance
a mountain, hill
Probably from an obsolete oro (to rise or "rear"; perhaps akin to airo; compare ornis); a mountain (as lifting itself above the plain): -hill, mount(-ain).
see GREEK airo
see GREEK ornis
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3735: ὄροςὄρος,
ὄρους,
τό (
ὈΡΩ,
ὄρνυμι (i. e. a rising; see orthroi])) (from
Homer down), the
Sept. for
הַר,
a mountain:
Matthew 5:14;
Luke 3:5;
Revelation 6:14, and often;
τό ὄρος, the mountain nearest the place spoken of, the mountain near by (but see
ὁ, II. 1 b.),
Matthew 5:1;
Mark 3:13;
Luke 9:28;
John 6:3, 15; plural
ὄρη,
Matthew 18:12;
Matthew 24:16;
Mark 5:5;
Revelation 6:16, etc.; genitive plural
ὀρέων (on this uncontracted form, used also in Attic, cf. Alexander
Buttmann (1873) Gram. § 49 note 3;
Winers Grammar, § 9, 2 c.; (
Buttmann, 14 (13); Dindorf in Fleckeisen's Jahrb. for 1869, p. 83)),
Revelation 6:15;
ὄρη μεθιστάνειν a proverb. phrase, used also by rabbinical writings,
to remove mountains, i. e.
to accomplish most difficult, stupendous, incredible things:
1 Corinthians 13:2, cf.
Matthew 17:20;
Matthew 21:21;
Mark 11:23.