ἀνθέω
bloom, flourish
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀνθέω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 15 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.
- Job 14:2 ἀνθέω Or he falls like a flower that has bloomed; and he departs like a shadow, and can’t continue.
- Job 14:9 ἀνθέω it will blossom from the scent of water, and will produce a crop, as one newly planted.
- Job 20:21 ἀνθέω There is nothing remaining of his provisions; therefore his goods shall not flourish.
- Psalms 89:6 ἀνθέω In the morning let it flower, and pass away: in the evening let it droop, let it be withered and dried up.
- Psalms 91:13 ἀνθέω They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 ἀνθέω and they shall look up, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall blossom, and the locust shall increase, and the caper shall be scattered: because man has gone to his eternal home, and the mourners have gone about the market:
- Song of Solomon 6:11 ἀνθέω There I will give you my breasts: my soul knew it not: it made me as the chariots of Aminadab.
- Song of Solomon 7:13 ἀνθέω The mandrakes have given a smell, and at our doors are all kinds of choice fruits, new and old. O my kinsman, I have kept them for you.
- Song of Solomon 7:13 ἀνθέω The mandrakes have given a smell, and at our doors are all kinds of choice fruits, new and old. O my kinsman, I have kept them for you.
- Song of Solomon 7:13 ἀνθέω The mandrakes have given a smell, and at our doors are all kinds of choice fruits, new and old. O my kinsman, I have kept them for you.
- Isaiah 17:11 ἀνθέω In the day wherein you shall plant you shall be deceived; but if you sow in the morning, the seed shall spring up for a crop in the day wherein you shall obtain an inheritance, and as a man's father, you shall obtain an inheritance for your sons.
- Isaiah 18:5 ἀνθέω Before the reaping time, when the flower has been completely formed, and the unripe grape has put forth its flower and blossomed, then shall he take away the little clusters with pruning-hooks, and shall take away the small branches, and cut them off;
- Isaiah 35:1 ἀνθέω Be glad, you thirsty desert: let the wilderness exult, and flower as the lily.
- Ezekiel 7:10 ἀνθέω Behold, the day of the Lord! although the rod has blossomed,
- Hosea 14:6 ἀνθέω I will be as dew to Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Libanus.
About this word
About this word
ἀνθέω (anthéō), “bloom, flourish,” 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 15 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 →