ἀκρωτήριον
extremity, headland
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀκρωτήριον 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.
- Leviticus 4:11 ἀκρωτήριον And they shall take the skin of the calf, and all his flesh with the head and the extremities and the belly and the dung,
- 1 Samuel 14:4 ἀκρωτήριον And in the midst of the passage whereby Jonathan sought to pass over to the encampment of the Philistines, there was both a sharp rock on this side, and a sharp rock on the other side: the name of the one was Bases, and the name of the other Senna.
- 1 Samuel 14:4 ἀκρωτήριον And in the midst of the passage whereby Jonathan sought to pass over to the encampment of the Philistines, there was both a sharp rock on this side, and a sharp rock on the other side: the name of the one was Bases, and the name of the other Senna.
- Job 37:9 ἀκρωτήριον Troubles come on out of the secret chambers, and cold from the mountain-tops.
- Ezekiel 25:9 ἀκρωτήριον Therefore, behold, I will weaken the shoulder of Moab from his frontier cities, even the choice land, the house of Bethasimuth above the fountain of the city, by the sea-side.
About this word
About this word
ἀκρωτήριον (akrōtḗrion), “extremity, headland,” 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 →
