UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: ὀπή; -ῆς

Sense 1: hole, opening

Semantic entry: 1.53

Semantic domains: Geographical Objects and Features

Subdomains: Depressions and Holes

Definition: an opening or hole in the ground, either large as in RV HEB 11:38 · LV HEB 11:38 · Read together HEB 11:38 or relatively small as in RV JAM 3:11 · LV JAM 3:11 · Read together JAM 3:11

Notes: Holes would differ from caves (RV HEB 11:38 · LV HEB 11:38 · Read together HEB 11:38) in that holes would be vertical openings into the ground, while caves would be more or less horizontal openings into cliffs or sides of hills. In RV JAM 3:11 · LV JAM 3:11 · Read together JAM 3:11 it may be quite unnecessary, and in fact confusing, to try to translate ὀπῆς, since ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὀπῆς ‘from the same opening’ would seem to be redundant with ἡ πηγή ‘spring,’ since a spring would presumably only flow from a hole or opening in the ground.

HEB 11:38: RV HEB 11:38 · LV HEB 11:38 · Read together HEB 11:38

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OET-RV HEB 11:38

38 This world wasn’t worthy of having them. They wandered around wilderness areas and on hills and lived in caves and in holes in the ground.

OET-LV HEB 11:38

38 of _whom not was worthy the world, in wildernesss being _strayed, and mountains, and caves, and the holes of _the earth.

JAM 3:11: RV JAM 3:11 · LV JAM 3:11 · Read together JAM 3:11

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OET-RV JAM 3:11

11 Surely a spring flowing out of a single cavity can’t produce both good-tasting and bitter water.

OET-LV JAM 3:11

11 Surely _not the spring out _of of _the same hole is _outflowing the sweet and the bitter?

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

ὀπή

Form 1

Sense 1: hole, opening