βροτός
mortal, man
Where this word appears
Every passage where βροτός appears in the Greek Septuagint — 17 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 4:17 βροτός What, shall a mortal be pure before the Lord? or a man be blameless in regard to his works?
- Job 9:2 βροτός I know of a truth that it is so: for how shall a mortal man be just before the Lord?
- Job 10:4 βροτός Or do you see as a mortal sees? or will you look as a man sees?
- Job 10:22 βροτός to a land of perpetual darkness, where there is no light, neither can any one see the life of mortals.
- Job 11:12 βροτός But man vainly buoys himself up with words; and a mortal born of woman is like an ass in the desert.
- Job 14:1 βροτός For a mortal born of a woman is short lived, and full of wrath.
- Job 14:10 βροτός But a man that has died is utterly gone; and when a mortal has fallen, he is no more.
- Job 15:14 βροτός For who, being a mortal, is such that he shall be blameless? or, who that is born of a woman, that he should be just?
- Job 25:4 βροτός For how shall a mortal be just before the Lord? or who that is born of a woman shall purify himself?
- Job 28:4 βροτός There is a cutting off the torrent by reason of dust: so they that forget the right way are weakened; they are removed from among men.
- Job 28:13 βροτός A mortal has not known its way, neither indeed has it been revealed among men.
- Job 32:8 βροτός but there is a spirit in mortals; and the inspiration of the Almighty is that which teaches.
- Job 32:21 βροτός For truly I will not be awed because of man, nor indeed will I be confounded before a mortal.
- Job 33:12 βροτός For how say you, I am righteous, yet he has not listened to me? for he that is above mortals is eternal.
- Job 34:15 βροτός all flesh would die together, and every mortal would return to the earth, whence also he was formed.
- Job 36:25 βροτός Every man has seen in himself, how many mortals are wounded.
- Job 36:28 βροτός The ancient heavens shall flow, and the clouds overshadow innumerable mortals: he has fixed a time to cattle, and they know the order of rest. Yet by all these things your understanding is not astonished, neither is your mind disturbed in your body.
About this word
About this word
βροτός (brotós), “mortal, man,” 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 17 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 →
