ἀποῥήσσω
break off, tear away
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀποῥήσσω 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.
- Leviticus 13:56 ἀποῥήσσω And if the priest should look, and the spot be dark after it has been washed, he shall tear it off from the garment, either from the warp or from the woof, or from the skin.
- Job 39:4 ἀποῥήσσω Their young will break forth; they will be multiplied with offspring: their young will go forth, and will not return to them.
- Ecclesiastes 4:12 ἀποῥήσσω And if one should prevail against him, the two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord shall not be quickly broken.
About this word
About this word
ἀποῥήσσω (aporhḗssō), “break off, tear away,” 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 →
