χέρσος
dry land, waste
Where this word appears
Every passage where χέρσος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 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.
- Isaiah 5:6 χέρσος And I will forsake my vineyard; and it shall not be pruned, nor dug, and thorns shall come up upon it as on barren land; and I will command the clouds to rain no rain upon it.
- Isaiah 7:23 χέρσος And it shall come to pass in that day, for every place where there shall be a thousand vines at a thousand shekels, they shall become barren land and thorns.
- Isaiah 7:24 χέρσος Men shall enter there with arrow and bow; for all the land shall be barren ground and thorns.
- Isaiah 7:25 χέρσος And every mountain shall be certainly plowed: there shall no fear come there: for there shall be from among the barren ground and thorns that whereon cattle shall feed and oxen shall tread.
- Hosea 10:4 χέρσος and what should a king do for us, speaking false professions as his words? he will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.
- Hosea 12:12 χέρσος And Jacob retreated into the plain of Syria, and Israel served for a wife, and waited for a wife.
About this word
About this word
χέρσος (chérsos), “dry land, waste,” 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 6 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 →
