ἀκονάω
sharpen, whet
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀκονάω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 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.
- Psalms 44:6 ἀκονάω Your throne, O God, is for ever and ever: the sceptre of your kingdom is a sceptre of righteousness.
- Psalms 51:4 ἀκονάω You have loved all words of destruction, and a deceitful tongue.
- Psalms 63:4 ἀκονάω to shoot in secret at the blameless; they will shoot him suddenly, and will not fear.
- Psalms 119:4 ἀκονάω Sharpened weapons of the mighty, with coals of the desert.
- Psalms 139:4 ἀκονάω Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the sinner; rescue me from unjust men; who have purposed to overthrow my goings.
- Proverbs 5:4 ἀκονάω but afterwards you will find her more bitter than gall, and sharper than a two-edged sword.
About this word
About this word
ἀκονάω (akonáō), “sharpen, whet,” 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 6 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 →
