ἄρκος
bear
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἄρκος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 12 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 1:35 ἄρκος And the Amorite began to dwell in the mountain of shells, in which are bears, and foxes, in Myrsinon, and in Thalabin; and the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy upon the Amorite, and he became tributary to them.
- 1 Samuel 17:14 ἄρκος And David himself was the younger son, and the three elder followed Saul.
- 1 Samuel 17:16 ἄρκος And the Philistine advanced morning and evening, and stood up forty days.
- 1 Samuel 17:17 ἄρκος And Jessae said to David, Take now to your brethren an ephah of this meal, and these ten loaves, and run to the camp and give them to your brothers.
- 2 Samuel 17:8 ἄρκος And Chusi said, You know your father and his men, that they are very mighty, and bitter in their spirit, as a bereaved bear in the field, and as a wild boar in the plain: and your father is a man of war, and will not give the people rest.
- 2 Kings 2:24 ἄρκος And he turned after them, and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And, behold, there came out two bears out of the wood, and they tore forty and two children of them.
- Isaiah 11:7 ἄρκος And the ox and bear shall feed together; and their young shall be together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
- Isaiah 59:11 ἄρκος They shall proceed together as a bear and as a dove: we have waited for judgment, and there is no salvation, it is gone far from us.
- Lamentations 3:10 ἄρκος he has troubled me, as a she-bear lying in wait: he is to me as a lion in secret places.
- Daniel 7:5 ἄρκος And, behold, a second beast like a bear, and it supported itself on one side, and there were three ribs in its mouth, between its teeth: and thus they said to it, Arise, devour much flesh.
- Hosea 13:8 ἄρκος I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians, as a she-bear excited, and I will rend the caul of their heart, and the lions' whelps of the thicket shall devour them there; the wild beasts of the field shall rend them in pieces.
- Amos 5:19 ἄρκος As if a man should flee from the face of a lion, and a bear should meet him; and he should spring into his house, and lean his hands upon the wall, and a serpent should bite him.
About this word
About this word
ἄρκος (árkos), “bear,” 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 12 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 →