ἄκρος
topmost, extreme
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἄκρος appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 87 total occurrences). 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.
- Genesis 28:18 ἄκρος And Jacob rose up in the morning, and took the stone he had laid there by his head, and he set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.
- Exodus 29:20 ἄκρος And you shall kill it, and take of the blood of it, and put it on the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, and on the tips of the right ears of his sons, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the great toes of their right feet.
- Leviticus 8:23 ἄκρος And Moses brought near the sons of Aaron; and Moses put of the blood on the tips of their right ears, and on the thumbs of their right hands, and on the great toes of their right feet, and Moses poured out the blood on the altar round about.
- Deuteronomy 3:11 ἄκρος For only Og the king of Basan was left of the Raphain: behold, his bed was a bed of iron; behold, it is in the chief city of the children of Ammon; the length of it is nine cubits, and the breadth of it four cubits, according to the cubit of a man.
- Judges 1:6 ἄκρος And Adonibezek fled, and they pursued after him, and took him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
- 1 Samuel 2:10 ἄκρος The Lord will weaken his adversary; the Lord is holy. Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor let the mighty man boast in his strength, and let not the rich man boast in his wealth; but let him that boasts boast in this, to understand and know the Lord, and to execute judgment and justice in the midst of the earth. The Lord has gone up to the heavens, and has thundered: he will judge the extremities of the earth, and he gives strength to our kings, and will exalt the horn of his Christ. And she left him there before the Lord,
- 1 Kings 2:35 ἄκρος And the king appointed Banaeas son of Jodae in his place over the host; and the kingdom was established in Jerusalem; and as for Sadoc the priest, the king appointed him to be high priest in the room of Abiathar. And Solomon son of David reigned over Israel and Juda in Jerusalem: and the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and largeness of heart, as the sand by the sea-shore.
- 1 Chronicles 14:15 ἄκρος And it shall be, when you shall hear the sound of their tumult in the tops of the pear trees, then you shall go into the battle: for God has gone out before you to strike the army of the Philistines.
- 2 Chronicles 20:16 ἄκρος To-morrow go you⌃ down against them: behold, they come up by the ascent of Assis, and you⌃ shall find them at the extremity of the river of the wilderness of Jeriel.
- Ezra 11:9 ἄκρος
- Psalms 18:7 ἄκρος The law of the Lord is perfect, converting souls: the testimony of the Lord is faithful, instructing babes.
- Proverbs 1:21 ἄκρος And she makes proclamation on the top of the walls, and sits by the gates of princes; and at the gates of the city boldly says,
- Isaiah 2:2 ἄκρος For in the last days the mountain of the Lord shall be glorious, and the house of God shall be on the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall come to it.
- Jeremiah 12:12 ἄκρος The ravagers are come to every passage in the wilderness: for the sword of the Lord will devour from one end of the land to the other: no flesh has any peace.
- Ezekiel 17:4 ἄκρος he cropped off the ends of the tender twigs, and brought them into the land of Chanaan; he laid them up in a walled city.
- Micah 5:3 ἄκρος Therefore shall he appoint them to wait till the time of her that travails: she shall bring forth, and then the remnant of their brethren shall return to the children of Israel.
- Haggai 2:12 ἄκρος Thus says the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priest concerning the law, saying,
About this word
About this word
ἄκρος (ákros), “topmost, extreme,” 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 87 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 →