Greek Lexicon G201–G300 (Strong's)

G201

ἀκροατήριον (akroatḗrion)

(ak-ro-at-ay'-ree-on | ah-kroh-ah-TAY-ree-one | ah-kroh-ah-TAY-ree-one)

Definition

from G202; an audience-room; place of hearing.

a place set aside for hearing and deciding cases

ἀκροατής (akroatḗs)

(ak-ro-at-ace' | ah-kroh-ah-TASE | ah-kroh-ah-TASE)

Definition

from ἀκροάομαι (to listen; apparently an intensive of G191); a hearer (merely); hearer.

a hearer

G203

ἀκροβυστία (akrobystía)

(ak-rob-oos-tee'-ah | ah-kroh-voo-STEE-ah | ah-kroh-vyoo-STEE-ah)

Definition

from G206 and probably a modified form of πόσθη (the penis or male sexual organ); the prepuce; by implication, an uncircumcised (i.e., gentile, figuratively, unregenerate) state or person; not circumcised, uncircumcised (with G2192), uncircumcision.

having the foreskin, uncircumcised
a Gentile
a condition in which the corrupt desires rooted in the flesh were not yet extinct

G203.1

ἀκρόβυστος (akrobystos)

(ah-KRO-vees-tos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — uncircumcised (the adjective beneath ἀκροβυστία). Gilgal's explanation: the wilderness generation's sons 'were uncircumcised' — and there the covenant sign was renewed and Egypt's reproach rolled away, the threshold-rite of entry into the land.

uncircumcised

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Joshua 5:7 (their sons whom He raised up in their place — these Joshua circumcised, because they were uncircumcised, having been born on the way).

G204

ἀκρογωνιαῖος (akrogōniaîos)

(ak-rog-o-nee-ah'-yos | ah-kroh-goh-nee-EH-ose | ah-kroh-goh-nee-A-ose)

Definition

from G206 and G1137; belonging to the extreme corner; chief corner.

placed at an extreme corner, the corner foundation stone

G204.1

ἀκρόδρυα (akrodrya)

(ah-KRO-dhree-ah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun (plural) — orchard fruits, choice tree-fruits (ἄκρος, topmost + δρῦς, tree). The Song's garden word — the choicest fruits of the bride's orchard, laid up for the beloved.

choice fruits
orchard fruits

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Song of Solomon 4:13 ("your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates with all choicest fruits, henna with nard"); Song of Solomon 5:1 ("I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride... I have eaten of my choice fruits"); Song of Solomon 7:13 ("at our doors are all choice fruits, new as well as old, which I have laid up for you, my beloved").

G205

ἀκροθίνιον (akrothínion)

(ak-roth-in'-ee-on | ah-kroh-THEE-nee-one | ah-kroh-THEE-nee-one)

Definition

from G206 and θίς (a heap); properly (in the plural) the top of the heap, i.e., (by implication) best of the booty; spoils.

top of the heap, the first fruits
- best of the spoils or crops
the Greeks customarily selected from the topmost part of the heaps and offered this to the gods

ἄκρον (ákron)

(ak'-ron | AH-krone | AH-krone)

Definition

neuter of an adjective probably akin to the base of G188; the extremity; one end... other, tip, top, uttermost participle.

the farthest bounds, uttermost parts, end, highest, extreme
- of the earth
- of heaven

G206.1

ἄκρον (akron)

(AH-kron)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — the ABP's distinct Old Testament slot for the same dictionary form as the base entry above. Neuter of ἄκρος (extreme, topmost); the extremity — tip, end, uttermost part. In the LXX it is the word of the ordination rite: the blood of the ram put on the tip of the right ear, the thumb, and the big toe of Aaron and his sons; and of "the ends of the earth."

tip (of ear, thumb, toe — the ordination and cleansing rites)
end, edge, uttermost part (of a land, of the earth)

Septuagint usage

74 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 28:18 (the stone set up at the top); Genesis 47:21 (from one end of Egypt to the other); Exodus 29:20 (blood on the tip of the right ear, thumb, and big toe); Leviticus 8:23-24; Leviticus 14:14 (the cleansed leper's ear, thumb, and toe); Deuteronomy 28:64 (scattered from one end of the earth to the other).

G206.2

ἀκρότομος (akrotomos)

(ah-KRO-to-moss)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — sharp-cut: flinty (of rock), quarry-dressed (of stone). The wilderness miracle wears it — "who brought you water out of the flinty rock" — and Psalm 114 sings it: the flint turned into fountains of water.

flinty
quarry-dressed (stone)

Septuagint usage

5 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Deuteronomy 8:15 (the One who brought water out of the flinty rock in the great and terrible wilderness); 1 Kings 6:7 (the house built with stone dressed at the quarry — no hammer heard in the building); Job 28:9 (the miner's hand against the flinty rock, overturning mountains); Psalm 114:8 (the rock turned to pools of water, the flint into fountains).

G207

Ἀκύλας (Akýlas)

(ak-oo'-las | ah-KOO-lahs | ah-KYOO-lahs)

Definition

an eagle; probably for Latin aquila (an eagle); Akulas, an Israelite; Aquila.

a Jew of Pontus, a tent maker convert to Christ, companion and ally of Paul in propagating Christianity

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G207.1–G207.2 below.

G207.1

ἀκρωτήριον (akrōtērion)

(ah-kro-TEE-ree-on)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun from ἄκρος (topmost, outermost; cf. ἄκρον, G206); extremity, outermost part — of a sacrificial body, the extremities; of terrain, the crag-point. The sin-offering bull is burned outside the camp with its extremities; Jonathan climbs between the two crag-teeth toward the Philistine garrison.

extremity, outermost part
crag, projecting point

Septuagint usage

7 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 4:11 (the bull's hide, flesh, head, and extremities — carried outside the camp and burned); 1 Samuel 14:4 (between the passes, a tooth of rock on this side and a tooth of rock on that — Jonathan's climb); 1 Samuel 14:5 (the one crag northward toward Michmash, the other southward toward Geba); Ezekiel 25:9 (the shoulder of Moab laid open from its cities, from its extremities).

G207.2

ἄκυρος (akyros)

(AH-kee-ros)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — without authority, void (ἀ- + κῦρος, authority — the family of the NT's ἀκυρόω, 'making void' the word of God, Mark 7:13). Wisdom's complaint at the city gates: "you made my counsels void, and disobeyed my reproofs" — counsel annulled by the hearer, and the annulment answered in kind when calamity comes.

void
without authority

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Proverbs 1:25 (but you made my counsels void, and disobeyed my reproofs).

G208

ἀκυρόω (akyróō)

(ak-oo-ro'-o | ah-koo-ROH-oh | ah-kyoo-ROH-oh)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G2964; to invalidate; disannul, make of none effect.

to render void, deprive of force and authority

G209

ἀκωλύτως (akōlýtōs)

(ak-o-loo'-toce | ah-koh-LOO-tose | ah-koh-LYOO-tose)

Definition

adverb from a compound of G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G2967; in an unhindered manner, i.e., freely; no man forbidding him.

without hindrances, freely

G210

ἄκων (ákōn)

(ak'-ohn | AH-kone | AH-kone)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G1635; unwilling; against the will.

not of one's own will, unwillingly, against the will

G211

ἀλάβαστρον (alábastron)

(al-ab'-as-tron | ah-LA-va-strone | ah-LA-va-strone)

Definition

neuter of ἀλάβαστρος (of uncertain derivation), the name of a stone; properly, an "alabaster" box, i.e., (by extension) a perfume vase (of any material); (alabaster) box.

a box made of alabaster in which unguents are preserved

G212

ἀλαζονεία (alazoneía)

(al-ad-zon-i'-a | ah-la-zoh-NEE-ah | ah-la-zoh-NEE-ah)

Definition

from G213; braggadocio, i.e., (by implication) self-confidence; boasting, pride.

empty, braggart talk
an insolent and empty assurance, which trusts in its own power and resources and shamefully despises and violates divine laws and human rights
an impious and empty presumption which trusts in the stability of earthy things

G212.1

ἀλαζονεύομαι (alazoneuomai)

(ah-lah-zo-NEV-o-my)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to boast, act ostentatiously (from ἀλαζονεία, arrogant display). Proverbs' court-etiquette: do not parade yourself before the king nor stand in the place of the great — the maxim whose better-to-be-invited-up logic Jesus builds into the parable of the seats (Luke 14:8-10).

to boast
to act ostentatiously

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Proverbs 25:6 (do not act ostentatiously in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the places of dynasts — for better that it be said to you, "Come up to me").

G213

ἀλαζών (alazṓn)

(al-ad-zone' | ah-la-ZONE | ah-la-ZONE)

Definition

from ἄλη (vagrancy); braggart; boaster.

an empty pretender, a boaster

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G213.1–G213.2 below.

G213.1

ἀλάλαγμα (alalagma)

(ah-LAH-lag-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a shout, war-cry or acclaim (from ἀλαλάζω, to raise the cry). The communal lament's bitter accounting: You sold Your people without price — 'and there was no multitude in their shouts' — the auction of a nation with no crowd to bid.

shout
war-cry

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalms 44:12 (You rendered Your people without price — and there was no multitude in their shouts).

G213.2

ἀλαλαγμός (alalagmos)

(a-la-lag-MOSS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Masculine noun from ἀλαλάζω (G214, to raise a war-cry); a shout, battle-cry, ringing joy-shout — Jericho's wall-felling shout and the Psalter's shout at God's going up.

shout, war-cry
joyful shout

Septuagint usage

10 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Joshua 6:20 (the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell); Psalms 33:3 (play skillfully with a shout); Psalms 47:5 (God has gone up with a shout, the Lord with a sound of a trumpet); Psalms 89:15 (blessed the people who know the joyful shout).

ἀλαλάζω (alalázō)

(al-al-ad'-zo | ah-la-LA-zoh | ah-la-LA-zoh)

Definition

from ἀλαλή ( a shout, "halloo"); to vociferate, i.e., (by implication) to wail; figuratively, to clang; tinkle, wail.

to repeat frequently the cry "alala" as soldiers used to do on entering into battle
to utter a joyful sound
to wail, lament
to ring loudly, to clang

G215

ἀλάλητος (alálētos)

(al-al'-ay-tos | ah-LA-lay-tose | ah-LA-lay-tose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G2980; unspeakable; unutterable, which cannot be uttered.

not to be uttered, not expressed in words

G216

ἄλαλος (álalos)

(al'-al-os | AH-la-lose | AH-la-lose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G2980; mute; dumb.

speechless, dumb, wanting the faculty of speech

G216.1

ἀλάομαι (alaomai)

(ah-LAH-o-my)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to wander, rove homeless. Jeremiah's Ammon-oracle: Milcom's people driven out, their king into exile, his priests and rulers 'wanderers together' — the god who could not keep his land scattering his own.

to wander
to rove

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Jeremiah 49:5 ("behold, I bring fear upon you, says the LORD, from all your surroundings — and you shall be scattered, each before his own face, runaways, and there shall be no one gathering").

G217

ἅλας (hálas)

(hal'-as | HA-lahs | A-lahs)

Definition

from G251; salt; figuratively, prudence; salt.

salt with which food is seasoned and sacrifices are sprinkled
those kinds of saline matter used to fertilize arable land
salt is a symbol of lasting concord
wisdom and grace exhibited in speech

Note

Because salt protects food from putrefaction and preserves it unchanged it is a symbol of a lasting agreement. Accordingly, in the solemn ratification of compacts, Middle Easterners were, and are to this day, accustomed to partake of salt together.

G217.1

ἀλγέω (algeō)

(al-GEH-oh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to feel pain, ache, suffer (the root of ἄλγος, pain).

to ache, feel pain
to suffer

Septuagint usage

6 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Samuel 1:26 ("I ache over you, my brother Jonathan"); Job 5:18 ("He causes one to ache, and restores again"); Psalm 69:29 ("I am poor and aching" — the psalm of the reproach and the vinegar); Jeremiah 4:19 ("my belly! my belly! I ache" — the prophet's anguish at the coming ruin).

G217.2

ἀλγηδών (algēdōn)

(al-ghee-DON)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — pain, suffering (from ἄλγος, pain). The penitential psalm's confession-word: "I am ready for scourges, and my suffering is before me continually" — pain kept in view as the companion of contrition, on the way to 'I will declare my iniquity.'

pain
suffering

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalms 38:17 (for I am ready for whips — and my suffering is before me always).

G217.3

ἄλγημα (algēma)

(AHL-yee-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a pain, an ache (cognate of ἄλγος). The stirred pain of the psalmist's silence — and Qoheleth's audit: he who increases knowledge increases pain.

pain
ache

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalms 39:2 ("I was mute and silent; I held my peace even from good — and my pain was stirred"); Ecclesiastes 1:18 (in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases pain); Ecclesiastes 2:23 (all his days are pains, and his task is vexation; even in the night his heart does not rest).

G217.4

ἀλγηρός (algēros)

(ahl-yee-ROS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — painful, grievous (cognate of ἄλγος). Jeremiah's wound-word for Zion — a stroke painful past physicians, kept for the LORD Himself to heal.

painful
grievous

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Jeremiah 10:19 ("woe is me for my breaking — my wound is painful; and I said, surely this is my grief, and I must bear it"); Jeremiah 30:12 ("thus says the LORD: your fracture is incurable, your wound painful"); Jeremiah 30:13 (there is none to plead your cause, no medicine for your painful wound — yet the LORD will restore health, verse 17).

G217.5

ἄλγος (algos)

(AHL-ghos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — pain, grief, sorrow. Lamentations' word for Zion's incomparable anguish, and the Psalter's for the suffering of the LORD's smitten one.

pain
grief, sorrow

Septuagint usage

4 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalms 69:26 (in the great messianic psalm of reproach — "they add to the pain of the one You have wounded"); Lamentations 1:12 ("look and see if there is any pain like my pain, which was dealt to me, which the LORD inflicted in the day of His fierce anger"); Lamentations 1:18 ("hear, all you peoples, and behold my pain; my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity").

G217.6

ἄλειμμα (aleimma)

(AH-leem-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — an anointing, anointing oil (from ἀλείφω, to anoint). The holy anointing oil of the sanctuary — and Isaiah's oil of gladness in place of mourning.

anointing
anointing oil

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 30:31 ("this shall be a holy anointing oil to Me throughout your generations" — not to be poured on the flesh of a stranger); Isaiah 61:3 (the anointed One's exchange for Zion's mourners — the anointing of gladness instead of mourning, a garment of praise instead of a faint spirit); Daniel 10:3 (Daniel's three weeks — no choice food, no meat or wine, and no anointing at all until the weeks were fulfilled).

G218

ἀλείφω (aleíphō)

(al-i'-fo | ah-LEE-foh | ah-LEE-foh)

Definition

from G1 (as particle of union) and the base of G3045; to oil (with perfume); anoint.

to anoint

G219

ἀλεκτοροφωνία (alektorophōnía)

(al-ek-tor-of-o-nee'-ah | ah-lek-toh-roh-foh-NEE-ah | ah-lake-toh-roh-foh-NEE-ah)

Definition

from G220 and G5456; cock-crow, i.e., the third night-watch; cockcrowing.

the crowing of a cock or rooster, cock-crowing
- used of the third watch of the night

G220

ἀλέκτωρ (aléktōr)

(al-ek'-tore | ah-LEK-tore | ah-LAKE-tore)

Definition

from ἀλέκω (to ward off); a cock or male fowl; cock.

a cock, or male of any bird, a rooster

G221

Ἀλεξανδρεύς (Alexandreús)

(al-ex-and-reuce' | ah-leh-ksahn-THREVS | ah-lay-ksahn-THRAYFS)

Definition

from Ἀλεξάνδρεια (the city so called); an Alexandreian or inhabitant of Alexandria; of Alexandria, Alexandrian.

a native or resident of Alexandria in Egypt

G222

Ἀλεξανδρῖνος (Alexandrînos)

(al-ex-an-dree'-nos | ah-leh-ksahn-THREE-nose | ah-lay-ksahn-THREE-nose)

Definition

from the same as G221; Alexandrine, or belonging to Alexandria; of Alexandria.

a native or resident of Alexandria in Egypt
of Alexandria or belonging to Alexandria

G223

Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros)

(al-ex'-an-dros | ah-LEH-ksahn-throse | ah-LAY-ksahn-throse)

Definition

the defender of man; from the same as (the first part of) G220 and G435; Alexander, the name of three Israelites and one other man; Alexander.

son of Simon of Cyrene who carried Jesus's cross, Mark 15:21
a certain man of the kindred of the high priest, Acts 4:6
a certain Jew, Acts 19:33
a certain coppersmith who opposed the Apostle Paul, 1 Timothy 1:20
man-defender, the protector of men

G224

ἄλευρον (áleuron)

(al'-yoo-ron | AH-lev-rone | AH-lave-rone)

Definition

from ἀλέω(to grind); flour; meal.

wheat flour, meal

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G224.1 below.

G224.1

ἀλέω (aleō)

(ah-LEH-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to grind (the mill-verb beneath ἄλευρον, flour). Babylon's demotion in one imperative: "take the millstone, grind flour" — the throne-lady of the nations set to a slave-girl's work in Isaiah's taunt-song.

to grind

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Isaiah 47:2 (take a millstone, grind flour; uncover your veil, reveal the gray of your head — uncover the leg, pass through rivers).

G225

ἀλήθεια (alḗtheia)

(al-ay'-thi-a | ah-LAY-thee-ah | ah-LAY-thee-ah)

Definition

from G227; truth; true, X truly, truth, verity.

objectively
- what is true in any matter under consideration
  - truly, in truth, according to truth
  - of a truth, in reality, in fact, certainly
- what is true in things appertaining to God and the duties of man, moral and religious truth
  - in the greatest latitude
  - the true notions of God which are open to human reason without his supernatural intervention
- the truth as taught in the Christian religion, respecting God and the execution of his purposes through Christ, and respecting the duties of man, opposing alike to the superstitions of the Gentiles and the inventions of the Jews, and the corrupt opinions and precepts of false teachers even among Christians
subjectively
- truth as a personal excellence
  - that candour of mind which is free from affection, pretence, simulation, falsehood, deceit

G226

ἀληθεύω (alētheúō)

(al-ayth-yoo'-o | ah-lay-THEV-oh | ah-lay-THAVE-oh)

Definition

from G227; to be true (in doctrine and profession); speak (tell) the truth.

to speak or tell the truth
- to teach the truth
- to profess the truth

ἀληθής (alēthḗs)

(al-ay-thace' | ah-lay-THASE | ah-lay-THASE)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G2990; true (as not concealing); true, truly, truth.

true
loving the truth, speaking the truth, truthful

G228

ἀληθινός (alēthinós)

(al-ay-thee-nos' | ah-lay-thee-NOSE | ah-lay-thee-NOSE)

Definition

from G227; truthful; true.

that which has not only the name and resemblance, but the real nature corresponding to the name, in every respect corresponding to the idea signified by the name, real, true genuine
- opposite to what is fictitious, counterfeit, imaginary, simulated or pretended
- it contrasts realities with their semblances
- opposite to what is imperfect defective, frail, uncertain
true, veracious, sincere

G229

ἀλήθω (alḗthō)

(al-ay'-tho | ah-LAY-thoh | ah-LAY-thoh)

Definition

from the same as G224; to grind; grind.

to grind

Note

It was the custom to send women and female slaves to the mill houses to turn the hand mills.

G230

ἀληθῶς (alēthōs)

(al-ay-thoce' | ah-lay-THOSE | ah-lay-THOSE)

Definition

adverb from G227; truly; indeed, surely, of a surety, truly, of a (in) truth, verily, very.

truly, of a truth, in reality, most certainly

G230.1

ἁλιαίετος (haliaietos)

(ah-lee-EH-eh-tos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — the sea-eagle, osprey (ἅλς, sea + ἀετός, eagle). One of the unclean birds of prey in the dietary lists — named between the eagle-kinds in both Leviticus and Deuteronomy.

sea-eagle
osprey

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 11:13 ("these you shall abhor from the birds, and they shall not be eaten — the eagle, and the griffin, and the osprey"); Deuteronomy 14:12 (these you shall not eat of them — the eagle, and the griffin, and the osprey).

G231

ἁλιεύς (halieús)

(hal-ee-yoos' | ha-lee-EVS | a-lee-AYFS)

Definition

from G251; a sailor (as engaged on the salt water), i.e., (by implication) a fisher; fisher(-man).

a fisherman, fisher

G232

ἁλιεύω (halieúō)

(hal-ee-yoo'-o | ha-lee-EV-oh | a-lee-AVE-oh)

Definition

from G231; to be a fisher, i.e., (by implication) to fish; go a-fishing.

to fish

G233

ἁλίζω (halízō)

(hal-id'-zo | ha-LEE-zoh | a-LEE-zoh)

Definition

from G251; to salt; salt.

to salt, season with salt, sprinkle with salt

G233.1

ἅλιμος (halimos)

(AH-lee-mos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective (used as noun) — of the salt: the salt-plant, sea-orach; a salt land (from ἅλς, salt). Famine-fare plucked by the destitute — and Jeremiah's uninhabited salt land, the lot of the man who trusts in man.

salt-plant, sea-orach
salt land

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 30:4 (the outcasts who pluck salt-herbs by the bushes, whose bread is the root of the broom tree); Jeremiah 17:6 (the man who trusts in man is like a shrub in the desert — he shall dwell in parched places, in a salt land not inhabited).

G233.2

ἀλισγέω (alisgeō)

(ah-lees-GEH-oh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to pollute, defile, especially food; the verb behind ἀλίσγημα (G234), the "pollutions of idols" of Acts 15:20. In Daniel it is the defilement the young exile refused; in Malachi, the defiled bread on the LORD's table.

to pollute, defile (food, offerings)

Septuagint usage

6 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Daniel 1:8 (Daniel purposed in his heart not to be polluted by the king's table); Malachi 1:7 ("offering on My altar polluted bread"); Malachi 1:12 (the table of the LORD counted as polluted).

ἀλίσγεμα (alísgema)

(al-is'-ghem-ah | ah-LEES-geh-ma | ah-LEES-gay-ma)

Definition

from ἀλισγέω (to soil); (ceremonially) defilement; pollution.

pollution, condemnation

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G234.1 below.

G234.1

ἁλίσκομαι (haliskomai)

(a-LEES-ko-meh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb; to be caught, captured, taken — the thief caught in the act, the soul snared by its own words, and Isaiah's word over Jerusalem's stumbling: "many among them shall be weakened, and fall, and be crushed, and shall draw near, and be caught."

to be captured, taken (in war, in a snare)
to be caught, convicted (in a matter)

Septuagint usage

29 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 22:9 (the one convicted in the matter of trespass); Deuteronomy 24:7 (the man-stealer caught); Proverbs 6:2 (snared by the words of your own mouth); Isaiah 8:15 (they shall stumble... and be caught — the stone-of-stumbling oracle); Isaiah 24:18.

G235

ἀλλά (allá)

(al-lah' | al-LA | al-LA)

Definition

neuter plural of G243; properly, other things, i.e., (adverbially) contrariwise (in many relations); and, but (even), howbeit, indeed, nay, nevertheless, no, notwithstanding, save, therefore, yea, yet.

but
- nevertheless, notwithstanding
- an objection
- an exception
- a restriction
- nay, rather, yea, moreover
- forms a transition to the cardinal matter

G235.1

ἄλλαγμα (allagma)

(AL-lag-ma)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Neuter noun from ἀλλάσσω (G236, to change, exchange); a thing given in exchange, a price — the barter-word of the Torah's exchange laws and of Isaiah's ransom oracle: I give Egypt as your exchange.

exchange, barter
price

Septuagint usage

10 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 27:10 (he shall not exchange it — both it and its exchange shall be holy); Deuteronomy 23:18 (you shall not bring the price of a dog into the house of the Lord); 1 Kings 21:2 (I will give you money as the price of the vineyard); Isaiah 43:3 (I gave Egypt as your exchange).

ἀλλάσσω (allássō)

(al-las'-so | al-LAHS-soh | al-LAHS-soh)

Definition

from G243; to make different; change.

to change, to exchange one thing for another, to transform

G237

ἀλλαχόθεν (allachóthen)

(al-lakh-oth'-en | al-la-HOH-then | al-la-HOH-thane)

Definition

from G243; from elsewhere; some other way.

from another place

G237.1

ἀλλ' ἤ (all' ē)

(al-EE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Conjunction cluster — ἀλλά (G235, but) with ἤ (G2228, than); "but only," "except," "none other than" — the LXX's restrictive idiom: "this is none other than the house of God," "only the land of the priests Joseph did not buy."

but only, except, none other than

Septuagint usage

113 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 21:26; Genesis 24:4 ("but only to my country and my kin shall you go"); Genesis 28:17 ("this is none other than the house of God"); Exodus 33:16; Numbers 14:30.

G238

ἀλληγορέω (allēgoréō)

(al-lay-gor-eh'-o | al-lay-goh-REH-oh | al-lay-goh-RAY-oh)

Definition

from G243 and ἀγορέω (to harangue (compare G58)); to allegorize; be an allegory (the Greek word itself).

to speak allegorically or in a figure

G239

ἀλληλουϊα (allēlouïa)

(al-lay-loo'-ee-ah | al-lay-loo-ee-ah | al-lay-loo-ee-ah)

Definition

of Hebrew origin (imperative of H1984 and H3050); praise ye Jah!, an adoring exclamation; alleluiah.

praise ye the Lord, Hallelujah

G240

ἀλλήλων (allḗlōn)

(al-lay'-lone | al-LAY-lone | al-LAY-lone)

Definition

Genitive plural from G243 reduplicated; one another; each other, mutual, one another, (the other), (them-, your-)selves, (selves) together (sometimes with G3326 or G4314).

one another, reciprocally, mutually

G241

ἀλλογενής (allogenḗs)

(al-log-en-ace' | al-loh-geh-NASE | al-loh-gay-NASE)

Definition

from G243 and G1085; foreign, i.e., not a Jew; stranger.

sprung from another race, a foreigner, alien

G241.1

ἀλλόγλωσσος (alloglōssos)

(al-LOG-los-sos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — of another tongue, foreign-speaking (ἄλλος + γλῶσσα). Ezekiel's commission sharpened by contrast: he is not sent to many peoples 'of foreign speech' whose words he could not understand — but to the house of Israel, who understand every word and will not listen. Intelligibility is not the obstacle; the heart is.

of foreign tongue

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ezekiel 3:6 (not to many peoples of foreign speech and of foreign tongues, nor of hard languages which you do not hear their words — and if I sent you to such, they would have listened to you).

G241.2

ἀλλοιόω (alloioō)

(al-lee-OH-oh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from ἄλλος (G243, other); to change, alter, disguise — David changing his behavior before Achish, the disguises of kings, Jehoiachin's prison garments changed, and Daniel's God who changes times and seasons.

to change, alter
to disguise oneself

Septuagint usage

13 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Samuel 21:13 (David changed his behavior before them and feigned madness); 2 Kings 25:29 (Jehoiachin's prison garments were changed); Lamentations 4:1 (how the gold has changed!); Daniel 2:21 (he changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings).

G241.3

ἀλλοιόω (alloioō)

(al-lee-O-oh)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb from ἀλλοῖος (of another kind; cf. ἄλλος, G243, other); to change, alter, make different. Daniel's court-word: Belshazzar's countenance changed at the writing hand, the unchangeable law of the Medes and Persians, and the horn that presumes "to change times and law."

to change, alter
to be changed, made different

Septuagint usage

8 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalm 77:10 ("now I have begun — this change is of the right hand of the Most High"); Daniel 5:6 (then the king's countenance changed at the writing on the wall); Daniel 6:8 (the decree of the Medes and Persians, which shall not be changed); Daniel 7:25 (he shall intend to change times and law — and the court shall sit).

G242

ἅλλομαι (hállomai)

(hal'-lom-ahee | HAHL-loh-meh | AHL-loh-may)

Definition

middle voice of apparently a primary verb; to jump; figuratively, to gush; leap, spring up.

to leap
to spring up, gush up: of water

G243

ἄλλος (állos)

(al'-los | AL-lose | AL-lose)

Definition

a primary word; "else," i.e., different (in many applications); more, one (another), (an-, some an-)other(-s, -wise).

another, other

G244

ἀλλοτριεπίσκοπος (allotriepískopos)

(al-lot-ree-ep-is'-kop-os | al-loh-tree-eh-PEE-skoh-pose | al-loh-tree-ay-PEE-skoh-pose)

Definition

from G245 and G1985; overseeing others' affairs, i.e., a meddler (specially, in Gentile customs); busybody in other men's matters.

one who takes the supervision of affairs pertaining to others and in no wise to himself, a meddler in other men's affairs

G245

ἀλλότριος (allótrios)

(al-lot'-ree-os | al-LOH-tree-ose | al-LOH-tree-ose)

Definition

from G243; another's, i.e., not one's own; by extension foreign, not akin, hostile; alien, (an-)other (man's, men's), strange(-r).

belonging to another
foreign, strange, not of one's own family, alien, an enemy

G245.1

ἀλλοτριόομαι (allotrioomai)

(al-lo-tree-O-o-my)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to estrange oneself, act as a stranger (from ἀλλότριος, another's). Joseph at the granary: he knew his brothers 'and estranged himself from them, and spoke hard things' — the recognition-scene's held mask, severity worn over a heart already breaking toward reconciliation.

to estrange oneself
to act the stranger

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 42:7 (Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them — and he alienated himself from them, and spoke hard things to them, and said, "From where have you come?").

G245.2

ἀλλοτρίως (allotriōs)

(al-lo-TREE-os)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adverb — strangely, as something alien (from ἀλλότριος). Isaiah's word over the LORD's rising at Mount Perazim: He will do His work — 'bitterness; His strange work' — wrath performed as a thing foreign to His delight, the classic text for judgment as God's alien work.

strangely
as an alien thing

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Isaiah 28:21 (as a mountain of impious ones He shall rise up, and He shall be in the ravine of Gibeon — with rage He shall perform His works, a work of bitterness; but His anger shall deal strangely, and His rottenness is alien).

G245.3

ἀλλοτρίωσις (allotriōsis)

(ah-lo-tree-O-sees)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — alienation, foreign estrangement (from ἀλλότριος, another's). Nehemiah's cleansing of the priesthood from every foreign entanglement — and Jeremiah's plea where the LXX diverges from the Hebrew's "terror": "do not become to me an alienation — You are my refuge in the evil day."

alienation
estrangement

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Nehemiah 13:30 ("I cleansed them from every alienation — and I established the watches of the priests and the Levites, each in his work"); Jeremiah 17:17 ("do not become to me an alienation — You are the one sparing me in the evil day").

G246

ἀλλόφυλος (allóphylos)

(al-lof'-oo-los | al-LOH-foo-lose | al-LOH-fyoo-lose)

Definition

from G243 and G5443; foreign, i.e., (specially) Gentile; one of another nation.

foreign

G246.1

ἀλλόφωνος (allophōnos)

(al-LO-fo-nos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — of another voice, speaking a strange language (ἄλλος + φωνή, voice — beside ἀλλόγλωσσος in the same verse). Part of Ezekiel's not-sent-to list: peoples 'of foreign voice' would have listened; Israel of the one shared voice will not.

of foreign voice

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ezekiel 3:6 (not to many peoples of foreign languages and foreign tongues — whose words you would not understand; yet those, had I sent you, would have heard you).

G247

ἄλλως (állōs)

(al'-loce | AL-lose | AL-lose)

Definition

adverb from G243; differently; otherwise.

otherwise

G247.1

ἅλμα (halma)

(AL-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a leap, bound (from ἅλλομαι, to leap — the verb of the healed lame man, Acts 3:8). The war-horse of the whirlwind speech: 'with leaping he digs the plain' — power in exultation, pawing the valley before the trumpet.

leap
bound

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 39:25 (at the trumpet's signal he says, "Well done!" — and from afar he smells the battle with leaping and shouting).

G247.2

ἅλμη (halmē)

(AL-mee)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — brine, salt-waste. Psalm 107's moral geography: a fruitful land turned 'into brine' for the wickedness of its inhabitants — the Sodom-shaped inversion the same psalm answers with deserts turned to pools.

brine
salt-waste

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Psalms 107:34 (He made a fruitful land into brine, because of the wickedness of the ones dwelling in it).

G247.3

ἁλμυρίς (halmyris)

(al-mee-REES)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a salt-flat, saline steppe. The wild donkey's granted homeland in the whirlwind speech: God made 'the salt-flats' his dwelling — freedom assigned an address no city covets.

salt-flat
saline land

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 39:6 (I made the wilderness his house — and his encampments the salt-flats).

G247.4

ἁλμυρός (halmyros)

(al-mee-ROS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — salty, brackish. The habitat of Jeremiah's cursed man — the one whose trust is in man dwells 'in a salted land, uninhabited' with the wild tamarisk — the counter-image to the tree planted by waters.

salty
brackish

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Jeremiah 17:6 (he shall be as the wild tamarisk by the wilderness — and he shall encamp in salty places, in a salted land which is not inhabited).

G248

ἀλοάω (aloáō)

(al-o-ah'-o | ah-loh-AH-oh | ah-loh-AH-oh)

Definition

from the same as G257; to tread out grain; thresh, tread out the corn.

to thresh

G249

ἄλογος (álogos)

(al'-og-os | AH-loh-gose | AH-loh-gose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3056; irrational; brute, unreasonable.

destitute of reason
contrary to reason, absurd

G250

ἀλόη (alóē)

(al-o-ay' | ah-LOH-ay | ah-LOH-ay)

Definition

of foreign origin (compare G174); aloes (the gum); aloes.

aloe, aloes

Note

The name of an aromatic tree which grows in eastern India and Cochin China, and whose soft and bitter wood Middle Easterners used in fumigation and in embalming the dead. The tree grows to a height of 120 feet (40 m) and a girth of 12 feet (4 m).

G250.1

ἀλοητός (aloētos)

(ah-lo-ee-TOS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — threshing, threshing-time (from ἀλοάω, to thresh). The abundance-word of the covenant blessing — threshing overtaking vintage, vintage overtaking sowing — which Amos takes up verbatim for the restoration of David's fallen tent: the eschatological harvest that outruns the seasons.

threshing
threshing-time

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 26:5 ("your threshing shall overtake the vintage, and the vintage shall overtake the sowing — and you shall eat your bread to fullness, and dwell securely upon your land"); Amos 9:13 ("behold, days are coming," says the LORD, "when the threshing shall overtake the vintage, and the grape shall ripen in the sowing — and the mountains shall drip sweetness").

G250.2

ἀλοιφή (aloiphē)

(ah-lee-FEE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a smearing: ointment, plaster, whitewash coating (from ἀλείφω, to anoint, smear). Used both of the wiping-out of Amalek (a cognate intensive — "with a wiping I will wipe out") and of the plaster coating of walls.

ointment, smearing
plaster, whitewash

Septuagint usage

4 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 17:14 (the oath after Rephidim — "with a wiping I will wipe out the memorial of Amalek from under heaven"); Job 33:24 (Elihu — the ransomed man's flesh renewed like fresh plaster on a wall); Ezekiel 13:12 (when the wall falls — "where is the plaster with which you plastered it?"); Micah 7:11 ("a day for the plastering of your walls" — the day of rebuilding).

G251

ἅλς (háls)

(halce | HAHL-s | AHL-s)

Definition

a primary word; "salt"; salt.

salt

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G251.1–G251.2 below.

G251.1

ἄλσος (alsos)

(AL-sos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Neuter noun; a sacred grove — the LXX's standing rendering of the Hebrew אֲשֵׁרָה (asherah), the cult-pole and grove of Canaanite worship that Israel is commanded to cut down: Gideon cuts down his father's, and the reforming kings fell what the apostate kings planted.

sacred grove, Asherah (the cult-grove to be cut down)

Septuagint usage

42 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 34:13 ("their sacred groves you shall cut down"); Deuteronomy 16:21 ("you shall not plant for yourself a grove"); Judges 3:7; Judges 6:25-30 (Gideon cuts down the grove by night); 2 Kings 23:14 (Josiah's reform).

G251.2

ἀλσώδης (alsōdēs)

(al-SO-dhees)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective from ἄλσος (grove, sacred wood); wooded, of the grove. The LXX's word inside the prophets' indictment-formula for the high-place cults: "on every high hill and under every woody tree" Israel bowed and played the harlot.

wooded, of the grove
the "leafy tree" of the high-place formula

Septuagint usage

8 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Kings 16:4 (Ahaz sacrificed on the high places and under every woody tree); 2 Kings 17:10 (pillars and Asherim on every high hill and under every woody tree — the indictment of Samaria); Jeremiah 3:6 (faithless Israel went up on every high hill and under every woody tree and played the harlot there); Jeremiah 17:2.

G252

ἁλυκός (halykós)

(hal-oo-kos' | ha-loo-KOSE | a-lyoo-KOSE)

Definition

from G251; briny; salt.

salt

G253

ἀλυπότερος (alypóteros)

(al-oo-pot'-er-os | ah-loo-POH-teh-rose | ah-lyoo-POH-tay-rose)

Definition

comparative of a compound of G1 (as a negative particle) and G3077; more without grief; less sorrowful.

free from pain or grief

G253.1

ἁλυσιδωτός (halysidōtos)

(ah-lee-see-dho-TOS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — of chain-work, chain-woven (from ἅλυσις, a chain). Used of the braided gold chains of the high priest's breastpiece, of temple chain-work, and of Goliath's coat of mail.

of chain-work
chain-woven, braided

Septuagint usage

4 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 28:22 (braided chains of pure gold, corded work, for the breastpiece of judgment); Exodus 28:24 (the two chain-works fastened to the rings at the ends of the breastpiece); 1 Samuel 17:5 (Goliath clothed with a coat of chain-mail weighing five thousand shekels of bronze); 2 Chronicles 3:16 (chain-work made in the inner sanctuary and set on the heads of the pillars).

G254

ἅλυσις (hálysis)

(hal'-oo-sis | HA-loo-sees | A-lyoo-sees)

Definition

of uncertain derivation; a fetter or manacle; bonds, chain.

a chain, bond by which the body or any part of it (hands, feet) is bound

G255

ἀλυσιτελής (alysitelḗs)

(al-oo-sit-el-ace' | ah-loo-see-teh-LASE | ah-lyoo-see-tay-LASE)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and the base of G3081; gainless, i.e., (by implication) pernicious; unprofitable.

unprofitable, hurtful, pernicious

G255.1

ἄλφιτον (alphiton)

(AHL-fee-ton)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — toasted grain, roasted barley meal. Staple field-fare and traveling provision; the food Boaz passed to Ruth at the harvesters' table.

toasted grain
roasted barley meal

Septuagint usage

4 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ruth 2:14 (Boaz passed roasted grain to Ruth, and she ate and was satisfied and had some left over); 1 Samuel 17:17 (Jesse sends David to the battle-line with an ephah of toasted grain for his brothers); 1 Samuel 25:18 (Abigail's peace-offering to David includes five seahs of toasted grain); 2 Samuel 17:28 (the provisions brought to David at Mahanaim in his flight from Absalom).

G255.2

ἄλφος (alphos)

(AL-fos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a dull-white skin eruption, tetter (the benign whiteness the leprosy-laws distinguish from the unclean plague). The diagnosis of relief: bright spots dull-white on the skin — "it is a tetter; he is clean" — the priestly art of telling harmless from corrupt.

tetter
dull-white eruption

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 13:39 (the priest shall look — and behold, bright spots on the skin of their flesh, dull white: it is a psoriasis breaking out on the skin; he is clean).

G255.3

αλώθ (alōth)

(ah-LOTH)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Transliterated Hebrew noun — aloes (Hebrew אֲהָלוֹת, ahaloth), the fragrant aloe-wood. In the Song's garden-catalogue of the bride: myrrh and aloes with all the chief spices — the perfume-word later found on the King's own garments (Psalm 45:8) and at the burial of Jesus (John 19:39).

aloes
aloe-wood

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Song of Solomon 4:14 (spikenard and saffron, calamus and cinnamon, with all woods of Lebanon — myrrh, aloes, with all the chief perfumes).

G256

Ἀλφαῖος (Alphaîos)

(al-fah'-yos | al-FEH-ose | al-FAY-ose)

Definition

changing; of Hebrew origin (compare H2501); Alphaeus, an Israelite; Alpheus.

The father of Levi the publican (Mark 2:14)
The father of James the less, so called, one of the apostles

G257

ἅλων (hálōn)

(hal'-ohn | HA-lone | A-lone)

Definition

probably from the base of G1507; a threshing-floor (as rolled hard), i.e., (figuratively) the grain (and chaff, as just threshed); floor.

a ground plot or threshing floor, i.e., a place in the field made hard after the harvest by a roller, where grain was threshed out

G258

ἀλώπηξ (alṓpēx)

(al-o'-pakes | ah-LOH-payks | ah-LOH-payks)

Definition

of uncertain derivation; a fox, i.e., (figuratively) a cunning person; fox.

a fox
metaphorically a sly or crafty man

G259

ἅλωσις (hálōsis)

(hal'-o-sis | HA-loh-sees | A-loh-sees)

Definition

from a collateral form of G138; capture, be taken;

a catching, capture, to be taken

G260

ἅμα (háma)

(ham'-ah | HA-ma | A-ma)

Definition

a primary particle; properly, at the "same" time, but freely used as a preposition or adverb denoting close association; also, and, together, with(-al).

(adverb) at the same time, at once, together
(preposition) together with

G261

ἀμαθής (amathḗs)

(am-ath-ace' | ah-ma-THASE | ah-ma-THASE)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3129; ignorant; unlearned.

unlearned, ignorant

G261.1

ἅμαξα (hamaxa)

(AH-max-a)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Feminine noun; a wagon, cart — Joseph's wagons sent to carry Jacob down to Egypt, the six covered wagons given for the service of the tabernacle, and the new cart on which the Philistines (and later David) set the ark.

wagon, cart

Septuagint usage

24 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 45:19 (Pharaoh's wagons for the little ones); Genesis 45:27 (Jacob's spirit revived at the sight of the wagons); Numbers 7:3-8 (the wagons of the tabernacle service — none to the sons of Kohath); 1 Samuel 6:7 (the new cart bearing the ark); 2 Samuel 6:3.

G262

ἀμαράντινος (amarántinos)

(am-ar-an'-tee-nos | ah-ma-RAHN-tee-nose | ah-ma-RAHN-tee-nose)

Definition

from G263; "amaranthine", i.e., (by implication) fadeless; that fadeth not away.

composed of amaranth
- a flower so called because it never withers or fades, and when plucked off revives if moistened with water
- a symbol of perpetuity and immortality

ἀμάραντος (amárantos)

(am-ar'-an-tos | ah-MA-rahn-tose | ah-MA-rahn-tose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of G3133; unfading, i.e., (by implication) perpetual; that fadeth not away.

not fading away, unfading, perennial

G264

ἁμαρτάνω (hamartánō)

(ham-ar-tan'-o | ha-mahr-TA-noh | a-mahr-TA-noh)

Definition

perhaps from G1 (as a negative particle) and the base of G3313; properly, to miss the mark (and so not share in the prize), i.e., (figuratively) to err, especially (morally) to sin; for your faults, offend, sin, trespass.

to be without a share in
to miss the mark
to err, be mistaken
to miss or wander from the path of uprightness and honor, to do or go wrong
to wander from the law of God, violate God's law, sin

G265

ἁμάρτημα (hamártēma)

(ham-ar'-tay-mah | ha-MAHR-tay-ma | a-MAHR-tay-ma)

Definition

from G264; a sin (properly concrete); sin.

sin, evil deed

G266

ἁμαρτία (hamartía)

(ham-ar-tee'-ah | ha-mahr-TEE-ah | a-mahr-TEE-ah)

Definition

from G264; a sin (properly abstract); offence, sin(-ful).

equivalent to 264
- to be without a share in
- to miss the mark
- to err, be mistaken
- to miss or wander from the path of uprightness and honor, to do or go wrong
- to wander from the law of God, violate God's law, sin
that which is done wrong, sin, an offence, a violation of the divine law in thought or in act
collectively, the complex or aggregate of sins committed either by a single person or by many

G267

ἀμάρτυρος (amártyros)

(am-ar'-too-ros | ah-MAHR-too-rose | ah-MAHR-tyoo-rose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and a form of G3144; unattested; without witness.

without witness or testimony, unattested

G268

ἁμαρτωλός (hamartōlós)

(ham-ar-to-los' | ha-mahr-toh-LOSE | a-mahr-toh-LOSE)

Definition

from G264; sinful, i.e., a sinner; sinful, sinner.

devoted to sin, a sinner
- not free from sin
- pre-eminently sinful, especially wicked
  - all wicked men
  - specifically of men stained with certain definite vices or crimes
    - tax collectors, heathen

G268.1

αμασενίθ (amasenith)

(ah-mah-seh-NEETH)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Transliterated Hebrew noun — al-hasheminith (עַל־הַשְּׁמִינִית), 'upon the eighth' — the musical direction for the lower octave. The Chronicler's temple-orchestra roster: harps tuned 'with octaves' to lead — Israel's worship organized down to the register.

the eighth
lower octave

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Chronicles 15:21 (Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah — with harps with octaves, to rise up loudly).

G268.2

ἀμάσητος (amasētos)

(ah-MAH-see-tos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — unchewed, unchewable (ἀ- + μασάομαι, to chew). Zophar's figure for ill-gotten gain: wealth labored for in vain, 'as a tough morsel, unchewable' — riches the mouth cannot break down and the stomach will not keep.

unchewable

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 20:18 (in vain and fruitlessly he labored for wealth of which he shall not taste — as a tough morsel, unchewable and impotable).

G268.3

αματταρί (amattari)

(ah-mat-tah-REE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Transliterated Hebrew noun — the matarah (מַטָּרָה), the target-mark for archery. Jonathan's covenant-theater: "I will shoot three arrows, aiming at the mark" — the target whose arrows carried a kingdom's secret between two knit souls.

target
mark

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Samuel 20:20 ("and I, three arrows I will shoot, casting them at the mark" — Jonathan's arranged sign with David).

G268.4

ἀμαυρός (amauros)

(ah-mahv-ROSS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — dim, faint, dull. In the LXX it is a technical term of the leprosy diagnostics of Leviticus 13: the spot that is "faint" — not deeper than the skin, not spreading — is the sign by which the priest pronounces clean.

faint, dim
dull (of a fading plague-spot)

Septuagint usage

6 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Leviticus 13:4 (if the bright spot is faint, the priest quarantines the infection seven days); Leviticus 13:6 ("behold, the infection is faint" — he shall pronounce him clean); Leviticus 13:28 (the faint whiteness that is only the scar of the burn); Leviticus 13:56 (the garment whose infection is faint after washing).

G268.5

ἀμαυρόω (amauroō)

(ah-mav-RO-o)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to darken, dim, make faint. The eye-word of Israel's leaders — negated of Moses at a hundred and twenty, granted of Eli — and Lamentations' dimmed gold.

to dim, darken
to grow faint

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Deuteronomy 34:7 (Moses at his death, a hundred and twenty years old — his eye was not dimmed, nor his vigor fled); 1 Samuel 3:2 (Eli lying in his place, his eyes having begun to grow dim so that he could not see — the night the LORD called Samuel); Lamentations 4:1 ("how the gold has grown dim, the finest gold changed — the holy stones poured out at the head of every street").

G269

ἄμαχος (ámachos)

(am'-akh-os | AH-ma-hose | AH-ma-hose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3163; peaceable; not a brawler.

not to be withstood, invincible
not contentious
abstaining from fighting

G270

ἀμάω (amáō)

(am-ah'-o | ah-MA-oh | ah-MA-oh)

Definition

from G260; properly, to collect, i.e., (by implication) reap; reap down.

to reap, mow down

G270.1

ἀμβλύνω (amblynō)

(ahm-vlee-NO)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to blunt, dull, dim (with its sister ἀμβλυωπέω, to be dim-sighted — the ABP groups both under this slot). The dimmed eyes of the aged in the succession narratives: Isaac, whose blunted sight occasioned the stolen blessing — and Ahijah the prophet, whose dim eyes could not keep Jeroboam's wife from being known.

to blunt, dim
to be dim-sighted (ἀμβλυωπέω)

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 27:1 (it came to pass after Isaac grew old — his eyes were blunted so as not to see — and he called Esau his elder son); 1 Kings 14:4 (Ahijah was not able to see — for his eyes were dimmed from his old age).

G271

ἀμέθυστος (améthystos)

(am-eth'-oos-tos | ah-MEH-thoo-stose | ah-MAY-thyoo-stose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G3184; the "amethyst" (supposed to prevent intoxication); amethyst.

amethyst, a precious stone of a violet and purple color

G271.1

ἀμέλγω (amelgō)

(ah-MEL-go)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to milk, press out milk. Job's embryology of the Creator's hands — "did You not milk me out like milk and curdle me like cheese?" — and the proverb of provocation: press milk and there will be butter, press wrath and there will be strife.

to milk
to press out

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 10:10 ("did You not milk me out like milk, and curdle me like cheese? — with skin and flesh You clothed me"); Proverbs 30:33 (milk out milk and there will be butter — but if you squeeze the nostrils, blood will come out; draw out words and there will be quarrels and fights).

G272

ἀμελέω (ameléō)

(am-el-eh'-o | ah-meh-LEH-oh | ah-may-LAY-oh)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3199; to be careless of; make light of, neglect, be negligent, no regard.

to be careless of, to neglect

G272.1

ἄμελξις (amelxis)

(AH-mel-xis)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a milking (from ἀμέλγω, to milk). Zophar's picture of forfeited abundance: the wicked shall not see 'the milking' of honey and butter — the land's flowing goodness named by the act that draws it.

milking

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 20:17 (let him not see the milking of the pastures, nor the distributions of honey and butter).

G272.2

ἀμελῶς (amelōs)

(ah-meh-LOS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adverb — carelessly, negligently (from ἀμελέω, to neglect — Hebrews 2:3's 'if we neglect so great a salvation'). Jeremiah's double curse over the Moab-commission: cursed the one doing the works of the LORD 'carelessly,' and cursed the one keeping his sword from blood — divine work admits no slack hand.

carelessly
negligently

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Jeremiah 48:10 (accursed is the one doing the works of the LORD indifferently — and accursed is the one lifting his sword away from blood).

G273

ἄμεμπτος (ámemptos)

(am'-emp-tos | AH-mem-ptose | AH-mame-ptose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G3201; irreproachable; blameless, faultless, unblamable.

blameless, deserving no censure, free from fault or defect

G274

ἀμέμπτως (amémptōs)

(am-emp'-toce | ah-MEM-ptose | ah-MAME-ptose)

Definition

adverb from G273; faultlessly; blameless, unblamably.

blameless, so that there is no cause for censure

G275

ἀμέριμνος (amérimnos)

(am-er'-im-nos | ah-MEH-reem-nose | ah-MAY-reem-nose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3308; not anxious; without care(-fulness), secure.

free from anxiety, free from care

G276

ἀμετάθετος (ametáthetos)

(am-et-ath'-et-os | ah-meh-TA-theh-tose | ah-may-TA-thay-tose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G3346; unchangeable, or (neuter as abstract) unchangeability; immutable(-ility).

not transposed, not to be transferred, fixed, unalterable

G277

ἀμετακίνητος (ametakínētos)

(am-et-ak-in'-ay-tos | ah-meh-ta-KEE-nay-tose | ah-may-ta-KEE-nay-tose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G3334; immovable; unmovable.

not to be moved from its place, unmoved
metaphorically firmly persistent

G278

ἀμεταμέλητος (ametamélētos)

(am-et-am-el'-ay-tos | ah-meh-ta-MEH-lay-tose | ah-may-ta-MAY-lay-tose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of G3338; irrevocable; without repentance, not to be repented of.

not repentant of, unregretted

G279

ἀμετανόητος (ametanóētos)

(am-et-an-o'-ay-tos | ah-meh-ta-NOH-ay-tose | ah-may-ta-NOH-ay-tose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and a presumed derivative of G3340; unrepentant; impenitent.

admitting no change of mind, unrepented, impenitent

G279.1

ἀμέτρητος (ametrētos)

(ah-MEH-tree-tos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — unmeasured, boundless (ἀ- + μετρέω, to measure). Shebna's sentence in Isaiah: the disgraced steward flung 'into a great and unmeasured land' to die far from the tomb he carved for himself — exile sized by its measurelessness.

unmeasured
boundless

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Isaiah 22:18 (He will toss you into a great and unmeasured land, and there you shall die — and He shall make your beautiful chariot into dishonor, and the house of your ruler to be trampled).

G280

ἄμετρος (ámetros)

(am'-et-ros | AH-meh-trose | AH-may-trose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3358; immoderate; (thing) without measure.

without measure, immense

G281

ἀμήν (amḗn)

(am-ane' | ah-MANE | ah-MANE)

Definition

of Hebrew origin (H543); properly, firm, i.e., (figuratively) trustworthy; adverbially, surely (often as interjection, so be it); amen, verily.

firm
- metaphorically faithful
verily, amen
- at the beginning of a discourse: surely, truly, of a truth
- at the end: so it is, so be it, may it be fulfilled

Note

It was a custom, which passed over from the synagogues to the Christian assemblies, that when he who had read or discoursed, had offered up solemn prayer to God, the others responded "Amen," and thus made the substance of what was uttered their own.

G281.1

ἄμητος (amētos)

(AH-mee-tos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Masculine noun from ἀμάω (G270, to reap); harvest, harvest-time — the sabbath kept "in plowing time and in harvest," the sheaf left for the sojourner, and the sluggard shamed at harvest.

harvest, harvest season
the standing crop to be reaped

Septuagint usage

20 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 45:6 (five years in which neither plowing nor harvest); Exodus 34:21 (rest even in plowing time and harvest); Deuteronomy 24:19 (the forgotten sheaf of your harvest left for the stranger); Ruth 2:21; Proverbs 10:5 (he who sleeps in harvest, a son of shame).

G282

ἀμήτωρ (amḗtōr)

(am-ay'-tore | ah-MAY-tore | ah-MAY-tore)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3384; motherless, i.e., of unknown maternity; without mother.

born without a mother
bereft of a mother
born of a base or unknown mother
unmotherly, not worthy of the name of mother

G283

ἀμίαντος (amíantos)

(am-ee'-an-tos | ah-MEE-an-tose | ah-MEE-an-tose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G3392; unsoiled, i.e., (figuratively) pure; undefiled.

not defiled, unsoiled
- free from that by which the nature of a thing is deformed and debased, or its force and vigour impaired

G284

Ἀμιναδάβ (Aminadáb)

(am-ee-nad-ab' | ah-mee-na-THAHV | ah-mee-na-THAHV)

Definition

one of the prince's people; of Hebrew origin (H5992); Aminadab, an Israelite; Aminadab.

an ancestor of Christ

G284.1

ἀμισθί (amisthi)

(ah-mis-THEE)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adverb — without pay, unwaged (ἀ- + μισθός, wage). Job's portrait of the dispossessed poor: reaping a field not their own 'without pay' — labor stripped of its wage, the wrong that James 5:4 says cries out to the Lord of Hosts.

without pay
unwaged

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 24:6 (a field not their own they harvested before season — the poor labored in the vineyards of the impious without pay and without food).

G285

ἄμμος (ámmos)

(am'-mos | AM-mose | AM-mose)

Definition

perhaps from G260; sand (as heaped on the beach); sand.

sand, sandy ground

G285.1

ἀμνάς (amnas)

(am-NAS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Feminine noun, feminine of ἀμνός (G286, lamb); a ewe-lamb — the seven ewe-lambs of Abraham's covenant witness at Beersheba, and the ewe-lamb of the sin offering.

ewe-lamb

Septuagint usage

24 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Genesis 21:28-30 (the seven ewe-lambs set apart as witness at Beersheba); Genesis 31:41; Leviticus 5:6 (a ewe-lamb for the sin offering); Numbers 6:14 (the Nazirite's ewe-lamb); Numbers 7:17.

G285.2

ἀμνήστευτος (amnēsteutos)

(ah-MNEES-tev-tos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — unbetrothed (ἀ- + μνηστεύω, to betroth — the verb of Mary 'betrothed to Joseph,' Luke 1:27). The seduction-law's qualifier: the virgin 'not yet betrothed' — her case distinguished from the betrothed woman's because no covenant claim yet stood over her.

unbetrothed

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Exodus 22:16 (if anyone should beguile an unbetrothed virgin, and sleep with her — with a dowry he shall endow her to himself as wife).

G286

ἀμνός (amnós)

(am-nos' | am-NOSE | am-NOSE)

Definition

apparently a primary word; a lamb; lamb.

a lamb

G287

ἀμοιβή (amoibḗ)

(am-oy-bay' | ah-moo-VAY | ah-moo-VAY)

Definition

from ἀμείβω (to exchange); requital; requite.

requital, recompence

For the Septuagint (ABP) word at this number, see G287.1 below.

G287.1

ἀμορίτης (amoritēs)

(ah-mo-REE-tees)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a sweet cake, honey-bread (from ἄμορα, sweet pastry — the LXX's rendering of the ashishah, raisin-cake). David's ark-day distribution: to every Israelite, man and woman, a loaf, a date-cake, and a honey-bread — covenant joy made edible on the day the ark came home.

honey-bread
sweet cake

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: 1 Chronicles 16:3 (he divided to every man of Israel, from man unto woman — to each a loaf of bread, and a date-cake, and a honey-bread).

G288

ἄμπελος (ámpelos)

(am'-pel-os | AM-peh-lose | AM-pay-lose)

Definition

probably from the base of G297 and that of G257; a vine (as coiling about a support); vine.

a vine

G289

ἀμπελουργός (ampelourgós)

(am-pel-oor-gos' | am-peh-loor-GOSE | am-pay-loor-GOSE)

Definition

from G288 and G2041; a vine-worker, i.e., pruner; vine-dresser.

a vinedresser

G290

ἀμπελών (ampelṓn)

(am-pel-ohn' | am-peh-LONE | am-pay-LONE)

Definition

from G288; a vineyard; vineyard.

a vineyard

G290.1

ἀμπλάκημα (amplakēma)

(am-PLAH-kee-mah)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — an error, offense (a poetic Greek word for fault). Daniel's audit by his enemies: no pretext, no 'error' found in him, for he was faithful — the blamelessness that forced his accusers to legislate against his prayers.

error
offense

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Daniel 6:4 (the chief officials and satraps sought to find a pretext against Daniel — and no pretext, nor transgression, nor error was found against him, because he was trustworthy).

G291

Ἀμπλίας (Amplías)

(am-plee'-as | am-PLEE-as | am-PLEE-as)

Definition

large; contracted for Latin ampliatus (enlarged); Amplias, a Roman Christian; Amplias.

a Christian living in Rome

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G291.1–G291.2 below.

G291.1

ἀμύγδαλον (amygdalon)

(ah-MEEG-dah-lon)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — an almond, almond-blossom. In Qoheleth's allegory of old age: 'the almond shall blossom' — the white-flowering head of the aging man, in the poem that runs down to the silver cord and the dust returning to God who gave it.

almond
almond-blossom

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Ecclesiastes 12:5 (they shall look up into the height, and terrors are in the way — and the almond shall bloom, and the locust thicken, and the caper-berry be scattered; for the man has gone to his eternal home).

G291.2

ἀμύθητος (amythētos)

(ah-MEE-thee-tos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — untold, beyond telling, immense (alpha-privative + μῦθος, a telling). Bildad's promise misapplied and the whirlwind's plenty — increase and rain past counting.

untold
beyond telling

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 8:7 (Bildad — "though your beginning was small, your latter end shall be an untold increase"); Job 36:28 (the skies pour down rain and drop it upon untold multitudes of men); Job 41:30 (Leviathan's underparts — sharp shards untold, spread like a threshing sledge upon the mire).

G292

ἀμύνομαι (amýnomai)

(am-oo'-nom-ahee | ah-MOO-noh-meh | ah-MYOO-noh-may)

Definition

middle voice of a primary verb; to ward off (for oneself), i.e., protect; defend.

defend
- to ward off, keep off
- to aid or assist anyone
- to defend one's self against anyone
- to take vengeance on anyone

For the Septuagint (ABP) words at this number, see G292.1–G292.2 below.

G292.1

ἀμφίασις (amphiasis)

(am-FEE-ah-sis)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — clothing, covering (from ἀμφιέννυμι, to clothe; cf. ἀμφιέννυμι). The stripped covering of the poor in Job's courtroom — and the cloud given as the sea's clothing at its birth.

clothing
covering

Septuagint usage

3 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Job 22:6 (Eliphaz's false charge — "you have taken pledges from your brothers for nothing and stripped the naked of their clothing"); Job 24:7 (the oppressed spend the night naked, without clothing, and have no covering in the cold); Job 38:9 (the sea's birth from the womb — "when I made the cloud its clothing, and thick darkness its swaddling band").

G292.2

ἀμφιβάλλω (amphiballō)

(am-fee-VAHL-lo)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Verb — to cast around, throw a casting-net (ἀμφί + βάλλω — the very verb of Mark 1:16, Simon and Andrew 'casting a net' when Jesus called them). Habakkuk's protest wears it first: shall the Chaldean 'cast his net continually,' hauling nations like fish and slaying without sparing? The fisher-of-men image has a dark ancestor: empires that fish men for death, answered by the One who nets them for life.

to cast a net

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Habakkuk 1:17 (on account of this he will cast his casting-net — and continually he will not spare to kill nations).

G293

ἀμφίβληστρον (amphíblēstron)

(am-fib'-lace-tron | am-FEE-vlay-strone | am-FEE-vlay-strone)

Definition

from a compound of the base of G297 and G906; a (fishing) net (as thrown about the fish); net.

anything thrown around one to impede his motions, as chains, a garment, a net for fishing

G293.1

ἀμφιβολεύς (amphiboleus)

(am-fee-vo-LEVS)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a caster of nets, net-fisherman (agent of the net-family of ἀμφίβληστρον, the casting-net of Matthew 4:18). Isaiah's Egypt-oracle mourns them: the Nile's net-casters groaning as the river fails — an economy of fishers emptied when God dries the waters.

net-fisherman
net-caster

Septuagint usage

1 occurrence in the LXX Reference interlinear: Isaiah 19:8 (the fishermen shall moan and groan — all the ones casting a hook into the river; and the ones casting casting-nets, the very ones shall mourn).

G294

ἀμφιέννυμι (amphiénnymi)

(am-fee-en'-noo-mee | am-fee-EN-noo-mee | am-fee-ANE-nyoo-mee)

Definition

from the base of G297 and ἕννυμι (to invest); to enrobe; clothe.

to put on, to clothe

G295

Ἀμφίπολις (Amphípolis)

(am-fip'-ol-is | am-FEE-poh-lees | am-FEE-poh-lees)

Definition

a city surrounded by the sea; from the base of G297 and G4172; a city surrounded by a river; Amphipolis, a place in Macedonia; Amphipolis.

a city in Macedonia Prima, so called because the Strymon flowed around it

G295.1

ἀμφίταπος (amphitapos)

(ahm-FEE-tah-pos)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Noun — a double-piled rug, coverlet napped on both sides (ἀμφί, on both sides + τάπης, carpet). Luxury bedding in two opposite scenes: the loyal provision brought to David's men at Mahanaim — and the adulteress's bed spread with rugs from Egypt.

double-piled rug
coverlet

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: 2 Samuel 17:28 (they brought beds and double-piled rugs, and ten vessels, and earthenware — wheat, barley, flour, and roasted grain — for David and the people with him to eat); Proverbs 7:16 ("I have stretched ropes upon my bed — and spread it with double-piled rugs from Egypt").

G296

ἄμφοδον (ámphodon)

(am'-fod-on | AM-foh-thone | AM-foh-thone)

Definition

from the base of G297 and G3598; a fork in the road; where two ways meet.

a road around anything, a street

G296.1

ἀμφοτεροδέξιος (amphoterodexios)

(ahm-fo-teh-ro-DEX-ee-os)

Definition

Septuagint (Apostolic Bible Polyglot) extension number — a Greek OT word absent from the NT Strong's list. Adjective — both-right-handed, ambidextrous (ἀμφότεροι, both + δεξιός, right) — the LXX's rendering of the Hebrew "bound in the right hand," left-handed. The deliverer-mark of Benjamin, the "son of the right hand": Ehud the ambidextrous judge, and the seven hundred slingers accurate to a hair.

ambidextrous
both-handed

Septuagint usage

2 occurrences in the LXX Reference interlinear: Judges 3:15 (the sons of Israel cried to the LORD, and He raised up for them a savior — Ehud son of Gera, son of the Benjamite, an ambidextrous man); Judges 20:16 (seven hundred chosen men out of all the people — ambidextrous, all slinging stones at a hair and not missing).

G297

ἀμφότερος (amphóteros)

(am-fot'-er-os | am-FOH-teh-rose | am-FOH-tay-rose)

Definition

comparative of ἀμφί (around); (in plural) both; both.

both of two, both the one and the other

G298

ἀμώμητος (amṓmētos)

(am-o'-may-tos | ah-MOH-may-tose | ah-MOH-may-tose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and a derivative of G3469; unblamable; blameless.

that cannot be censured, blameless

G299

ἄμωμος (ámōmos)

(am'-o-mos | AH-moh-mose | AH-moh-mose)

Definition

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G3470; unblemished (literally or figuratively); without blame (blemish, fault, spot), faultless, unblamable.

without blemish
- as a sacrifice without spot or blemish
morally: without blemish, faultless, unblameable

G300

Ἀμών (Amṓn)

(am-one' | ah-MONE | ah-MONE)

Definition

builder; of Hebrew origin (H526); Amon, an Israelite; Amon.

a king of Judah, son of Manasseh, and father of Josiah

Greek Lexicon G201–G300 (Strong's)

G201

ἀκροατήριον (akroatḗrion)

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G202

ἀκροατής (akroatḗs)

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G203

ἀκροβυστία (akrobystía)

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G203.1

ἀκρόβυστος (akrobystos)

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G204

ἀκρογωνιαῖος (akrogōniaîos)

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G204.1

ἀκρόδρυα (akrodrya)

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G205

ἀκροθίνιον (akrothínion)

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G206

ἄκρον (ákron)

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G206.1

ἄκρον (akron)

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G206.2

ἀκρότομος (akrotomos)

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G207

Ἀκύλας (Akýlas)

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G207.1

ἀκρωτήριον (akrōtērion)

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G207.2

ἄκυρος (akyros)

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G208

ἀκυρόω (akyróō)

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G209

ἀκωλύτως (akōlýtōs)

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G210

ἄκων (ákōn)

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G211

ἀλάβαστρον (alábastron)

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G212

ἀλαζονεία (alazoneía)

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G212.1

ἀλαζονεύομαι (alazoneuomai)

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G213

ἀλαζών (alazṓn)

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