ἀγχιστεύς
kinsman, next of kin
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀγχιστεύς appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 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.
- Ruth 3:9 ἀγχιστεύς And he said, Who are you? and she said, I am your handmaid Ruth; spread therefore your skirt over your handmaid, for you are a near relation.
- Ruth 3:12 ἀγχιστεύς And now I am truly akin to you; nevertheless there is a kinsman nearer than I.
- Ruth 3:12 ἀγχιστεύς And now I am truly akin to you; nevertheless there is a kinsman nearer than I.
- Ruth 4:3 ἀγχιστεύς And Booz said to the relative, The matter regards the portion of the field which was our brother Elimelech's which was given to Noemin, now returning out of the land of Moab;
- Ruth 4:6 ἀγχιστεύς And the kinsman said, I shall not be able to redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance; do you redeem my right for yourself, for I shall not be able to redeem it.
- Ruth 4:8 ἀγχιστεύς And the kinsman said to Booz, Buy my right for yourself: and he took off his shoe and gave it to him.
- Ruth 4:14 ἀγχιστεύς And the women said to Noemin, Blessed is the Lord, who has not suffered a redeemer to fail you this day, even to make your name famous in Israel.
- 2 Samuel 14:11 ἀγχιστεύς And she said, Let now the king remember concerning his Lord God in that the avenger of blood is multiplied to destroy, and let them not take away my son. And he said, As the lord lives, not a hair of your son shall fall to the ground.
About this word
About this word
ἀγχιστεύς (anchisteús), “kinsman, next of kin,” 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 8 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 →