ἀρσενικός
male
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἀρσενικός appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 57 total occurrences). 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.
- Genesis 17:10 ἀρσενικός And this is the covenant which you shall fully keep between me and you, and between your seed after you for their generations; every male of you shall be circumcised.
- Exodus 12:48 ἀρσενικός And if any proselyte shall come to you to keep the passover to the Lord, you shall circumcise every male of him, and then shall he approach to sacrifice it, and he shall be even as the original inhabitant of the land; no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
- Leviticus 6:11 ἀρσενικός And he shall put off his robe, and put on another robe, and he shall take forth the offering that has been burnt without the camp into a clean place.
- Numbers 1:18 ἀρσενικός And they assembled all the congregation on the first day of the month in the second year; and they registered them after their lineage, after their families, after the number of their names, from twenty years old and upwards, every male according to their number:
- Deuteronomy 4:16 ἀρσενικός lest you⌃ transgress, and make to yourselves a carved image, any kind of figure, the likeness of male or female,
- 1 Kings 11:15 ἀρσενικός And it happened, that while David was utterly destroying Edom, while Joab captain of the host was going to bury the dead, when they killed every male in Idumaea;
- 2 Chronicles 31:16 ἀρσενικός besides the increase of males from three years old and upward, to every one entering into the house of the Lord, a portion according to a daily rate, for service in the daily courses of their order.
- Ezra 8:4 ἀρσενικός Of the sons of Phaath-Moab; Eliana the son of Saraia, and with him two hundred that were males.
- Ezekiel 16:17 ἀρσενικός And you took your fair ornaments of my gold and of my silver, of what I gave you, and you made to yourself male images, and you did commit whoredom with them.
About this word
About this word
ἀρσενικός (arsenikós), “male,” 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 57 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 →