ἀγκύλη
loop, noose
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀγκύλη appears in the Greek Septuagint — 11 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 26:4 ἀγκύλη And you shall make for them loops of blue on the edge of one curtain, on one side for the coupling, and so shall you make on the edge of the outer curtain for the second coupling.
- Exodus 26:5 ἀγκύλη Fifty loops shall you make for one curtain, and fifty loops shall you make on the part of the curtain answering to the coupling of the second, opposite each other, corresponding to each other at each point.
- Exodus 26:5 ἀγκύλη Fifty loops shall you make for one curtain, and fifty loops shall you make on the part of the curtain answering to the coupling of the second, opposite each other, corresponding to each other at each point.
- Exodus 26:10 ἀγκύλη And you shall make fifty loops on the border of one skin, which is in the midst for the joinings; and you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the second skin that joins it.
- Exodus 26:10 ἀγκύλη And you shall make fifty loops on the border of one skin, which is in the midst for the joinings; and you shall make fifty loops on the edge of the second skin that joins it.
- Exodus 26:11 ἀγκύλη And you shall make fifty brazen rings; and you shall join the rings by the loops, and you shall join the skins, and they shall be one.
- Exodus 37:15 ἀγκύλη And the sockets of their pillars of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their capitals overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the court overlaid with silver:
- Exodus 37:17 ἀγκύλη and their pillars four, and their sockets four of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their capitals overlaid with silver.
- Exodus 38:18 ἀγκύλη He overlaid the posts with silver, and cast for each post golden rings, and gilded the bars with gold; and he gilded the posts of the veil with gold, and made the hooks of gold.
- Exodus 38:20 ἀγκύλη He cast the silver capitals of the tabernacle, and the brazen capitals of the door of the tabernacle, and the gate of the court; and he made silver hooks for the posts, he overlaid them with silver on the posts.
- Exodus 39:5 ἀγκύλη one hundred capitals to the hundred talents, a talent to a chapiter.
About this word
About this word
ἀγκύλη (ankýlē), “loop, noose,” 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 11 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 →
