ἀπάνωθεν
from above, off
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀπάνωθεν appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 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.
- Judges 16:20 ἀπάνωθεν And Dalida said, The Philistines are upon you, Sampson: and he awoke out of his sleep and said, I will go out as at former times, and shake myself; and he knew not that the Lord was departed from him.
- 2 Samuel 11:20 ἀπάνωθεν then it shall come to pass if the anger of the king shall arise, and he shall say to you, Why did you⌃ draw near to the city to fight? knew you⌃ not that they would shoot from off the wall?
- 2 Samuel 11:24 ἀπάνωθεν And the archers shot at your servants from off the wall, and some of the king's servants died, and your servant Urias the Chettite is dead also.
- 2 Samuel 20:21 ἀπάνωθεν Is not the case thus, that a man of mount Ephraim, Sabee, son of Bochori by name, has even lifted up his hand against king David? Give him only to me, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said to Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to you over the wall.
- 1 Kings 1:53 ἀπάνωθεν And king Solomon sent, and they brought him away from the altar; and he went in and did obeisance to king Solomon: and Solomon said to him, Go to your house.
- Job 31:2 ἀπάνωθεν Now what portion has God given from above? and is there an inheritance given of the Mighty One from the highest?
About this word
About this word
ἀπάνωθεν (apánōthen), “from above, off,” 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 6 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 →