ἀποικία
exile, colony
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀποικία appears in the Greek Septuagint — 27 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 18:30 ἀποικία And the children of Dan set up the graven image for themselves; and Jonathan son of Gerson son of Manasse, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan till the time of the carrying away of the nation.
- Ezra 1:11 ἀποικία All the gold and silver vessels were five thousand four hundred, even all that went up with Sasabasar from the place of transportation, from Babylon to Jerusalem.
- Ezra 2:1 ἀποικία And these are the people of the land that went up, of the number of prisoners who were removed, whom Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon carried away to Babylon, and they returned to Juda and Jerusalem, every man to his city;
- Ezra 4:1 ἀποικία And they that afflicted Juda and Benjamin heard, that the children of the captivity were building a house to the Lord God of Israel.
- Ezra 9:4 ἀποικία Then there assembled to me all that followed the word of the God of Israel, on account of the transgression of the captivity; and I remained mourning until the evening sacrifice.
- Ezra 10:6 ἀποικία And Esdras rose up from before the house of God, and went to the treasury of Joanan the son of Elisub; he even went there: he ate no bread, and drank no water; for he mourned over the unfaithfulness of them of the captivity.
- Ezra 10:7 ἀποικία And they made proclamation throughout Juda and Jerusalem to all the children of the captivity, that they should assemble at Jerusalem, saying,
- Ezra 10:8 ἀποικία Every one who shall not arrive within three days, as is the counsel of the rulers and the elders, all his substance shall be forfeited, and he shall be separated from the congregation of the captivity.
- Ezra 10:16 ἀποικία And the children of the captivity did thus: and Esdras the priest, and heads of families according to their house were separated, and all by their names, for they returned in the first day of the tenth month to search out the matter.
- Ezra 17:6 ἀποικία
- Jeremiah 13:19 ἀποικία The cities toward the south were shut, and there was none to open them: Juda is removed into captivity, they have suffered a complete removal.
- Jeremiah 30:19 ἀποικία
- Jeremiah 31:7 ἀποικία Since you have trusted in your strong-hold, therefore you shall be taken: and Chamos shall go forth into captivity, and his priests, and his princes together.
- Jeremiah 35:4 ἀποικία and Jechonias, and the captivity of Juda: for I will break the yoke of the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 35:6 ἀποικία and Jeremias said, May the Lord indeed do thus; may he confirm your word which you do prophesy, to return the vessels of the house of the Lord, and all the captivity, out of Babylon to this place.
- Jeremiah 36:1 ἀποικία And these are the words of the book which Jeremias sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the false prophets, even an epistle to Babylon for the captivity, and to all the people;
- Jeremiah 36:1 ἀποικία And these are the words of the book which Jeremias sent from Jerusalem to the elders of the captivity, and to the priests, and to the false prophets, even an epistle to Babylon for the captivity, and to all the people;
- Jeremiah 36:4 ἀποικία Thus said the Lord God of Israel concerning the captivity which I caused to be carried away from Jerusalem;
- Jeremiah 36:17 ἀποικία
- Jeremiah 36:26 ἀποικία The Lord has made you priest in the place of Jodae the priest, to be ruler in the house of the Lord over every prophet, and to every madman, and you shall put them in prison, and into the dungeon.
- Jeremiah 37:3 ἀποικία For, behold, the days come, says the Lord, when I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel and Juda, said the Lord: and I will bring them back to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall be lords of it.
- Jeremiah 37:18 ἀποικία Thus said the Lord; Behold, I will turn the captivity of Jacob, and will have pity upon his prisoners; and the city shall be built upon her hill, and the people shall settle after their manner.
- Jeremiah 39:44 ἀποικία And they shall buy fields for money, and you shall write a book, and seal it, and shall take the testimony of witnesses in the land of Benjamin, and round about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Juda, and in the cities of the mountain, and in the cities of the plain, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity.
- Jeremiah 40:7 ἀποικία And I will turn the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of Israel, and will build them, even as before.
- Jeremiah 40:7 ἀποικία And I will turn the captivity of Juda, and the captivity of Israel, and will build them, even as before.
- Jeremiah 40:11 ἀποικία the voice of gladness, and the voice of joy, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the voice of men saying, Give thanks to the Lord Almighty: for the Lord is good; for his mercy endures fore ever: and they shall bring gifts into the house of the Lord; for I will turn all the captivity of that land as before, said the Lord.
- Jeremiah 47:1 ἀποικία The word that came from the Lord to Jeremias, after that Nabuzardan the captain of the guard had let him go out of Rama, when he had taken him in manacles in the midst of the captivity of Juda, even those who were carried to Babylon.
About this word
About this word
ἀποικία (apoikía), “exile, colony,” 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 27 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 →