αὐτόχθων
native, native-born
Where this word appears
Every passage where αὐτόχθων appears in the Greek Septuagint — 14 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 12:19 αὐτόχθων Seven days leaven shall not be found in your houses; whoever shall eat anything leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, both among the occupiers of the land and the original inhabitants.
- Exodus 12:48 αὐτόχθων 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 16:29 αὐτόχθων And this shall be a perpetual statute for you; in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, you⌃ shall humble your souls, and shall do no work, the native and the stranger who abides among you.
- Leviticus 17:15 αὐτόχθων And every soul which eats that which has died of itself, or is taken of beasts, either among the natives or among the strangers, shall wash his garments, and bathe himself in water, and shall be unclean until evening: then shall he be clean.
- Leviticus 19:34 αὐτόχθων The stranger that comes to you shall be among you as the native, and you shall love him as yourself; for you⌃ were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
- Leviticus 20:4 αὐτόχθων And if the natives of the land should in anyway overlook that man in giving of his seed to Moloch, so as not to put him to death;
- Leviticus 23:42 αὐτόχθων Seven days you⌃ shall dwell in tabernacles: every native in Israel shall dwell in tents,
- Leviticus 24:16 αὐτόχθων And he that names the name of the Lord, let him die the death: let all the congregation of Israel stone him with stones; whether he be a stranger or a native, let him die for naming the name of the Lord.
- Numbers 9:14 αὐτόχθων And if there should come to you a stranger in your land, and should keep the passover to the Lord, he shall keep it according to the law of the passover and according to its ordinance: there shall be one law for you, both for the stranger, and for the native of the land.
- Numbers 15:13 αὐτόχθων Every native of the country shall do thus to offer such things as sacrifices for a smell of sweet savor to the Lord.
- Numbers 15:30 αὐτόχθων And whatever soul either of the natives or of the strangers shall do any thing with a presumptuous hand, he will provoke God; that soul shall be cut off from his people,
- Joshua 9:2 αὐτόχθων they came all together at the same time to make war against Joshua and Israel.
- Jeremiah 14:8 αὐτόχθων O Lord, you are the hope of Israel, and deliver us in time of troubles; why are you become as a sojourner upon the land, or as one born in the land, yet turning aside for a resting-place?
- Ezekiel 47:22 αὐτόχθων You⌃ shall cast the lot upon it, for yourselves and the strangers that sojourn in the midst of you, who have begotten children in the midst of you: and they shall be to you as natives among the children of Israel; they shall eat with you in their inheritance in the midst of the tribes of Israel.
About this word
About this word
αὐτόχθων (autóchthōn), “native, native-born,” 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 14 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 →