ἀσπιδίσκη
small shield, boss
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἀσπιδίσκη appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 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.
- Exodus 28:13 ἀσπιδίσκη And you shall make circlets of pure gold;
- Exodus 28:14 ἀσπιδίσκη and you shall make two fringes of pure gold, variegated with flowers wreathen work; and you shall put the wreathen fringes on the circlets, fastening them on their shoulder-pieces in front.
- Exodus 28:29 ἀσπιδίσκη And under the fringe of the robe below you shall make as it were pomegranates of a flowering pomegranate tree, of blue, and purple, and spun scarlet, and fine linen spun, under the fringe of the robe round about: golden pomegranates of the same shape, and bells round about between these.
- Exodus 36:23 ἀσπιδίσκη and they made two golden circlets and two golden rings.
- Exodus 36:25 ἀσπιδίσκη and they put the golden wreaths on the rings on both sides of the oracle, and the two wreaths into the two couplings.
About this word
About this word
ἀσπιδίσκη (aspidískē), “small shield, boss,” 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 5 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 →
