ἄλσος

Where this word appears

A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἄλσος appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 42 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.

• Exodus 34:13 ἄλσος You⌃ shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and you⌃ shall cut down their groves, and the graven images of their gods you⌃ shall burn with fire.
• Deuteronomy 7:5 ἄλσος But thus shall you⌃ do to them; you⌃ shall destroy their altars, and shall break down their pillars, and shall cut down their groves, and shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods.
• Judges 3:7 ἄλσος And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord, and forgot the Lord their God, and served Baalim and the groves.
• 1 Samuel 7:3 ἄλσος And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you⌃ do with all your heart return to the Lord, take away the strange gods from the midst of you, and the groves, and prepare your hearts to serve the Lord, and serve him only; and he shall deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.
• 2 Samuel 5:24 ἄλσος And it shall come to pass when you hear the sound of a clashing together from the grove of weeping, then you shall go down to them, for then the Lord shall go forth before you to make havoc in the battle with the Philistines.
• 1 Kings 14:3 ἄλσος
• 2 Kings 13:6 ἄλσος Only they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, who led Israel to sin: they walked in them—moreover the grove also remained in Samaria.
• 2 Chronicles 14:2 ἄλσος And he did that which was good and right in the sight of the Lord his God.
• Jeremiah 4:29 ἄλσος The whole land has recoiled from the noise of the horseman and the bent bow; they have gone into the caves, and have hidden themselves in the groves, and have gone up upon the rocks: every city was abandoned, no man lived in them.
• Micah 3:12 ἄλσος Therefore on your account Sion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.