βιάζομαι
force, use violence
Where this word appears
Every passage where βιάζομαι appears in the Greek Septuagint — 8 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.
- Genesis 33:11 βιάζομαι Receive my blessings, which I have brought you, because God has had mercy on me, and I have all things; and he constrained him, and he took them.
- Exodus 19:24 βιάζομαι And the Lord said to him, Go, descend, and come up you and Aaron with you; but let not the priests and the people force their way to come up to God, lest the Lord destroy some of them.
- Deuteronomy 22:25 βιάζομαι But if a man find in the field a damsel that is betrothed, and he should force her and lie with her, you⌃ shall kill the man that lay with her only.
- Deuteronomy 22:28 βιάζομαι And if any one should find a young virgin who has not been betrothed, and should force her and lie with her, and be found,
- Judges 19:7 βιάζομαι And the man rose up to depart; but his father-in-law constrained him, and he stayed and lodged there.
- 2 Samuel 13:25 βιάζομαι And the king said to Abessalom, Nay, my son, let us not all go, and let us not be burdensome to you. And he pressed him; but he would not go, but blessed him.
- 2 Samuel 13:27 βιάζομαι And Abessalom pressed him, and he sent with him Amnon and all the king's sons; and Abessalom made a banquet like the banquet of the king.
- Esther 7:8 βιάζομαι And the king returned from the garden; and Aman had fallen upon the bed, intreating the queen. And the king said, Will you even force my wife in my house? And when Aman heard it, he changed countenance.
About this word
About this word
βιάζομαι (biázomai), “force, use violence,” 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 8 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 →
