ἁπαλύνω
soften, make tender
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἁπαλύνω 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.
- 2 Kings 22:19 ἁπαλύνω because your heart was softened, and you were humbled before me, when you heard all that I spoke against this place, and against the inhabitants of it, that it should be utterly destroyed and accursed, and you did rend your garments, and weep before me; I also have heard, says the Lord.
- Job 33:25 ἁπαλύνω And he will make his flesh tender as that of a babe, and he will restore him among men in his full strength.
- Psalms 54:22 ἁπαλύνω Cast your care upon the Lord, and he shall sustain you; he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
About this word
About this word
ἁπαλύνω (hapalýnō), “soften, make tender,” 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 →
