ἀναἵζω
set up, dedicate
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἀναἵζω appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 76 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 8:5 ἀναἵζω And the Lord said to Moses, Say to Aaron your brother, Stretch forth with the hand your rod over the rivers, and over the canals, and over the pools, and bring up the frogs.
- Deuteronomy 7:2 ἀναἵζω and the Lord your God shall deliver them into your hands, then you shall strike them: you shall utterly destroy them: you shall not make a covenant with them, neither shall you⌃ pity them:
- Judges 21:16 ἀναἵζω And the elders of the congregation said, What shall we do for wives for them that remain? for the women have been destroyed out of Benjamin.
- 1 Samuel 24:22 ἀναἵζω Now then swear to me by the Lord, that you will not destroy my seed after me, that you will not blot out my name from the house of my father.
- 2 Samuel 21:5 ἀναἵζω And he said, What say you⌃? speak, and I will do it for you. And they said to the king, The man who would have made an end of us, and persecuted us, who plotted against us to destroy us, let us utterly destroy him, so that he shall have no standing in all the coasts of Israel.
- 2 Kings 10:17 ἀναἵζω And he entered into Samaria, and struck all that were left of Achaab in Samaria, until he had utterly destroyed him, according to the word of the Lord, which he spoke to Eliu.
- Ezra 6:12 ἀναἵζω And may the God whose name dwells there, overthrow every king and people who shall stretch out his hand to alter or destroy the house of God which is in Jerusalem. I Darius have made a decree; let it be diligently attended to.
- Esther 3:6 ἀναἵζω and took counsel to destroy utterly all the Jews who were under the rule of Artaxerxes.
- Job 2:9 ἀναἵζω And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long will you hold out, saying, Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? for, behold, your memorial is abolished from the earth, even your sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; and you yourself sit down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labors and my pangs which now beset me: but say some word against the Lord, and die.
- Psalms 93:23 ἀναἵζω And he will recompense to them their iniquity and their wickedness: the Lord our God shall utterly destroy them.
- Proverbs 10:25 ἀναἵζω When the storm passes by, the ungodly vanishes away; but the righteous turns aside and escapes for ever.
- Song of Solomon 2:15 ἀναἵζω Take us the little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines put forth tender grapes.
- Jeremiah 4:26 ἀναἵζω I saw, and, behold, Carmel was desert, and all the cities were burnt with fire at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of his fierce anger they were utterly destroyed.
- Lamentations 1:4 ἀναἵζω DALETH. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the feast: all her gates are ruined: her priests groan, her virgins are led captive, and she is in bitterness in herself.
- Ezekiel 4:17 ἀναἵζω that they may lack bread and water; and a man and his brother shall be brought to ruin, and they shall pine away in their iniquities.
- Daniel 2:44 ἀναἵζω And in the days of those kings the God of heaven shall set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed: and his kingdom shall not be left to another people, but it shall beat to pieces and grind to powder all other kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.
- Hosea 2:14 ἀναἵζω Therefore, behold, I will cause her to err, and will make her as desolate, and will speak comfortably to her.
- Joel 1:17 ἀναἵζω The heifers have started at their mangers, the treasures are abolished, the wine presses are broken down; for the corn is withered.
- Amos 7:9 ἀναἵζω And the joyful altars shall be abolished, and the sacrifices of Israel shall be set aside; and I will rise up against the house of Jeroboam with the sword.
- Micah 5:13 ἀναἵζω And I will utterly destroy your graven images, and your statues out of the midst of you; and you shall never any more worship the works of your hands.
- Habakkuk 1:5 ἀναἵζω Behold, you⌃ despisers, and look, and wonder marvelously, and vanish: for I work a work in your days, which you⌃ will in no wise believe, though a man declare it to you.
- Zephaniah 2:9 ἀναἵζω Therefore, as I live, says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Moab shall be as Sodoma, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrha; and Damascus shall be left as a heap of the threshing floor, and desolate for ever: and the remnant of my people shall plunder them, and the remnant of my nations shall inherit them.
- Zechariah 7:14 ἀναἵζω And I will cast them out among all the nations, whom they know not; and the land behind them shall be made utterly destitute of any going through or returning: yes they have made the choice land a desolation.
About this word
About this word
ἀναἵζω (hanaízō), “set up, dedicate,” 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 76 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 →