βόθρος
pit, hole
Where this word appears
Every passage where βόθρος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 19 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.
- Joshua 8:29 βόθρος And he hanged the king of Gai on a gallows; and he remained on the tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave charge, and they took down his body from the tree, and cast it into a pit, and they set over him a heap of stones until this day.
- 1 Samuel 13:6 βόθρος And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait so that they could not draw near, and the people hid themselves in caves, and sheepfolds, and rocks, and ditches, and pits.
- Psalms 7:16 βόθρος His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.
- Psalms 56:7 βόθρος My heart, O God, is ready, my heart is ready: I will sing, yes will sing psalms.
- Psalms 93:13 βόθρος to give him rest from evil days, until a pit be digged for the sinful one.
- Proverbs 22:14 βόθρος The mouth of a transgressor is a deep pit; and he that is hated of the Lord shall fall into it. Evil ways are before a man, and he does not like to turn away from them; but it is needful to turn aside from a perverse and bad way.
- Proverbs 26:27 βόθρος He that digs a pit for his neighbor shall fall into it: and he that rolls a stone, rolls it upon himself.
- Ecclesiastes 10:8 βόθρος He that digs a pit shall fall into it; and him that breaks down a hedge a serpent shall bite.
- Ezekiel 26:20 βόθρος and great waters shall cover you; and I shall bring you down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause you to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that you may not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life;
- Ezekiel 26:20 βόθρος and great waters shall cover you; and I shall bring you down to them that go down to the pit, to the people of old time, and shall cause you to dwell in the depths of the earth, as in everlasting desolation, with them that go down to the pit, that you may not be inhabited, nor stand upon the land of life;
- Ezekiel 31:14 βόθρος in order that none of the trees by the water should exalt themselves by reason of their size: whereas they set their top in the midst of the clouds, yet they continued not in their high state in their place, all that drank water, all were consigned to death, to the depth of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 32:18 βόθρος Son of man, lament over the strength of Egypt, for the nations shall bring down her daughters dead to the depth of the earth, to them that go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 32:21 βόθρος Be you in the depth of the pit: to whom are you superior? yes, go down, and lie with the uncircumcised, in the midst of them that are slain with the sword.
- Ezekiel 32:22 βόθρος There are Assur and all his company: all his slain have been laid there:
- Ezekiel 32:24 βόθρος There is Aelam and all his host round about his tomb: all the slain that fell by the sword, and the uncircumcised that go down to the deep of the earth, who caused their fear to be upon the land of the living: and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit,
- Ezekiel 32:29 βόθρος There are laid the princes of Assur, who yielded their strength to a wound of the sword: these are laid with the slain, with them that go down to the pit.
- Ezekiel 32:30 βόθρος There are the princes of the north, even all the captains of Assur, who go down slain to Hades: they lie uncircumcised among the slain with the sword together with their terror and their strength, and they have received their punishment with them that go down to the pit.
- Amos 9:7 βόθρος Are not you⌃ to me as the sons of the Ethiopians, O children of Israel? says the Lord. Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Cappadocia, and the Syrians out of the deep?
- Zechariah 3:9 βόθρος Hear now, Jesus the high priest, you, and your neighbors that are sitting before you: for they are diviners, for, behold, I bring forth my servant The Branch.
About this word
About this word
βόθρος (bóthros), “pit, hole,” 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 19 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 →