ἀκρότομος
sharp, flinty (rock)
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀκρότομος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 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.
- Deuteronomy 8:15 ἀκρότομος who brought you through that great and terrible wilderness, where is the biting serpent, and scorpion, and drought, where there was no water; who brought you a fountain of water out of the flinty rock:
- Joshua 5:2 ἀκρότομος And about this time the Lord said to Joshua, Make you stone knives of sharp stone, and sit down and circumcise the children of Israel the second time.
- Joshua 5:3 ἀκρότομος And Joshua made sharp knives of stone, and circumcised the children of Israel at the place called the “Hill of Foreskins.”
- 1 Kings 6:7 ἀκρότομος And the house was built in the construction of it with rough hewn stones: and there was not heard in the house in the building of it hammer or axe, or any iron tool.
- Job 28:9 ἀκρότομος He has stretched forth his hand on the sharp rock, and turned up mountains by the roots:
- Job 40:20 ἀκρότομος But will you catch the serpent with a hook, and put a halter about his nose?
- Psalms 113:8 ἀκρότομος who turned the rock into pools of water, and the flint into fountains of water.
- Psalms 135:16 ἀκρότομος To him who led his people through the wilderness: for his mercy endures for ever.
About this word
About this word
ἀκρότομος (akrótomos), “sharp, flinty (rock),” 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 8 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 →