ἀναψυχή
refreshment, relief
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀναψυχή appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 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.
- Psalms 65:12 ἀναψυχή You did mount men upon our heads; we went through the fire and water; but you brought us out into a place of refreshment.
- Jeremiah 30:26 ἀναψυχή Therefore shall the young men fall in your streets, and all your warriors shall fall, says the Lord.
- Hosea 12:9 ἀναψυχή But I the Lord your God brought you up out of the land of Egypt: I will yet cause you to dwell in tabernacles, according to the days of the feast.
About this word
About this word
ἀναψυχή (anapsychḗ), “refreshment, relief,” 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 3 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 →
