ἀδολεσχία
musing, talk
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀδολεσχία appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Samuel 1:16 ἀδολεσχία Count not your handmaid for a pestilent woman, for by reason of the abundance of my importunity I have continued my prayer until now.
- 1 Kings 18:27 ἀδολεσχία And it was noon, and Eliu the Thesbite mocked them, and said, Call with a loud voice, for he is a god; for he is meditating, or else perhaps he is engaged in business, or perhaps he is asleep, and is to be awaked.
- 2 Kings 9:11 ἀδολεσχία And Ju went forth to the servants of his lord, and they said to him, Is all well? Why came this mad fellow in to you? And he said to them, You⌃ know the man, and his communication.
- Psalms 54:3 ἀδολεσχία because of the voice of the enemy, and because of the oppression of the sinner: for they brought iniquity against me, and were wrathfully angry with me.
- Psalms 118:85 ἀδολεσχία Transgressors told me idle tales; but not according to your law, O Lord.
About this word
About this word
ἀδολεσχία (adoleschía), “musing, talk,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 5 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
