βορά
food, prey
Where this word appears
Every passage where βορά appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 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.
- Job 4:11 βορά The old lion has perished for lack of food, and the lions' whelps have forsaken one another.
- Job 9:26 βορά Or again, is there a trace of their path left by ships? or is there one of the flying eagle as it seeks its prey?
- Job 38:39 βορά And will you hunt a prey for the lions? and satisfy the desires of the serpents?
- Job 38:41 βορά And who has prepared food for the raven? for its young ones wander and cry to the Lord, in search of food.
About this word
About this word
βορά (borá), “food, prey,” 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 4 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 →
