ἄλλαγμα
exchange, ransom price
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἄλλαγμα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 10 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 27:10 ἄλλαγμα He shall not change it, a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if he do at all change it, a beast for a beast, it and the substitute shall be holy.
- Leviticus 27:33 ἄλλαγμα You shall not change a good for a bad, or a bad for a good; and if you should at all change it, its equivalent also shall be holy, it shall not be redeemed.
- Deuteronomy 23:19 ἄλλαγμα You shall not lend to your brother on usury of silver, or usury of meat, or usury of any thing which you may lend out.
- 2 Samuel 24:24 ἄλλαγμα And the king said to Orna, Nay, but I will surely buy it of you at a fair price, and I will not offer to the Lord my God a whole burnt offering for nothing. So David purchased the threshing floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.
- 1 Kings 10:28 ἄλλαγμα And the goings forth of Solomon's horsemen was also out of Egypt, and the king's merchants were of Thecue; and they received them out of Thecue at a price.
- Job 28:17 ἄλλαγμα Gold and crystal shall not be equalled to it, neither shall vessels of gold be its exchange.
- Psalms 43:13 ἄλλαγμα You have made us a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision them that are round about us.
- Isaiah 43:3 ἄλλαγμα For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, that saves you: I have made Egypt and Ethiopia your ransom, and given Soene for you.
- Lamentations 5:4 ἄλλαγμα We have drunk our water for money; our wood is sold to us for a burden on our neck:
- Amos 5:12 ἄλλαγμα For I know your many transgressions, and your sins are great, trampling on the just, taking bribes, and turning aside the judgment of the poor in the gates.
About this word
About this word
ἄλλαγμα (állagma), “exchange, ransom price,” 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 10 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 →