ἀλοιφή
ointment, anointing
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀλοιφή appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 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.
- Exodus 17:14 ἀλοιφή And the Lord said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and speak this in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly blot out the memorial of Amalec from under heaven.
- Job 33:24 ἀλοιφή he will support him, that he should not perish, and will restore his body as fresh plaster upon a wall; and he will fill his bones with morrow.
- Ezekiel 13:12 ἀλοιφή And behold! the wall has fallen; and will they not say to you, Where is your plaster wherewith you⌃ plastered it?
- Micah 7:11 ἀλοιφή It is the day of making of brick; that day shall be your utter destruction, and that day shall utterly abolish your ordinances.
About this word
About this word
ἀλοιφή (aloiphḗ), “ointment, anointing,” 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 4 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 →
