λατομέω

English (LSJ)

   A quarry, γῆν Posidon.57 J.; πέτραν IG42(1).122.25 (Epid.), cf. D.S. 5.39; λίθους PCair.Zen.499.38 (iii B.C.), Antig.Mir.161: abs., PCair.Zen.296.34 (iii B.C.), Agatharch.25, J.AJ8.2.9:—Pass., λελατόμηται PPetr.2p.12 (iii B.C.); τὰ -ούμενα θραύματα D.S.3.12.    II λ. λάκκον hew it out, LXXEx.21.33, cf. De.6.11 (Pass.).

Greek (Liddell-Scott)

λᾱτομέω: κόπτω, ἐξάγω λίθους, πέτρας λ. Διόδ. 5. 39· μεταφ., λ. ἐκ τῆς κοιλίας Ἰουστῖν. Μάρτ. πρὸς Τρύφωνα 135. II. λ. λάκκον, πελεκῶ, σκάπτω, Ἑβδ. (Ἔξ. ΚΑ΄, 33).

English (Strong)

from the same as the first part of λαξευτός and the base of τομώτερος; to quarry: hew.

English (Thayer)

λατόμω: 1st aorist ἐλατόμησα; perfect passive participle λελατομημενος; (from λατόμος a stone-cutter, and this from λᾶς a stone, and τέμνω); to cut stones, to hew out stones: Sept. several times for חָצַב; once for כָּרָה, Diodorus (Dionysius Halicarnassus, Strabo, others (cf. Sophocles Lexicon, under the word)), Justin Martyr.)