ἀτεκνόω
make childless
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἀτεκνόω appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 20 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 27:45 ἀτεκνόω and rage depart from you, and he forget what you have done to him; and I will send and fetch you thence, lest at any time I should be bereaved of you both in one day.
- Genesis 31:38 ἀτεκνόω These twenty years have I been with you; your sheep, and your she-goats have not failed in bearing; I devoured not the rams of your cattle.
- Genesis 42:36 ἀτεκνόω And their father Jacob said to them, You⌃ have bereaved me. Joseph is not, Symeon is not, and will you⌃ take Benjamin? all these things have come upon me.
- Deuteronomy 32:25 ἀτεκνόω Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror shall issue out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old.
- 1 Samuel 15:33 ἀτεκνόω And Samuel said to Agag, As your sword has bereaved women of their children, so shall your mother be made childless among women: and Samuel killed Agag before the Lord in Galgal.
- 1 Samuel 15:33 ἀτεκνόω And Samuel said to Agag, As your sword has bereaved women of their children, so shall your mother be made childless among women: and Samuel killed Agag before the Lord in Galgal.
- 2 Samuel 17:8 ἀτεκνόω 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 2:19 ἀτεκνόω And the men of the city said to Elisaie, Behold, the situation of the city is good, as our lord sees; but the waters are bad, and the ground barren.
- 2 Kings 2:21 ἀτεκνόω And Elisaie went out to the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and says, Thus says the Lord, I have healed these waters; there shall not be any longer death thence or barren land.
- Song of Solomon 4:2 ἀτεκνόω Your teeth are as flocks of shorn sheep, that have gone up from the washing; all of them bearing twins, and there is not a barren one among them.
- Song of Solomon 6:6 ἀτεκνόω Your cheek is like the rind of a pomegranate, being seen without your veil.
- Jeremiah 15:7 ἀτεκνόω And I will completely scatter them; in the gates of my people they are bereaved of children: they have destroyed my people because of their iniquities.
- Lamentations 1:20 ἀτεκνόω RHECHS. Behold, O Lord; for I am afflicted: my belly is troubled, and my heart is turned within me; for I have been grievously rebellious: abroad the sword has bereaved me, even as death at home.
- Ezekiel 36:12 ἀτεκνόω And I will increase men upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall inherit you, and you⌃ shall be to them for a possession; and you⌃ shall no more be bereaved of them.
- Ezekiel 36:13 ἀτεκνόω Thus says the Lord God: Because they said to you, You land devour men, and have been bereaved of your nation;
- Ezekiel 36:14 ἀτεκνόω therefore you shall no more devour men, and you shall no more bereave your nation, says the Lord God.
- Hosea 9:12 ἀτεκνόω For even if they should rear their children, yet shall they be utterly bereaved: therefore also there is woe to them, though my flesh is of them.
- Hosea 9:14 ἀτεκνόω Give them, O Lord: what will you give them? a miscarrying womb, and dry breasts.
About this word
About this word
ἀτεκνόω (ateknóō), “make childless,” 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 20 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 →