χῶμα
mound, rampart
Where this word appears
Every passage where χῶμα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 12 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.
- Exodus 8:12 χῶμα And Moses and Aaron went forth from Pharao, and Moses cried to the Lord concerning the restriction of the frogs, as Pharao appointed him.
- Exodus 8:13 χῶμα And the Lord did as Moses said, and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields.
- Exodus 8:13 χῶμα And the Lord did as Moses said, and the frogs died out of the houses, and out of the villages, and out of the fields.
- Joshua 8:28 χῶμα And Joshua burnt the city with fire: he made it an uninhabited heap for ever, even to this day.
- Job 14:19 χῶμα The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong overflow a heap of the earth: and you destroy the hope of man.
- Job 17:16 χῶμα Will they go down with me to Hades, or shall we go down together to the tomb?
- Job 20:11 χῶμα His bones have been filled with vigour of his youth, and it shall lie down with him in the dust.
- Job 22:24 χῶμα You shall lay up for yourself treasure in a heap on the rock; and Sophir shall be as the rock of the torrent.
- Job 28:6 χῶμα Her stones are the place of the sapphire: and her dust supplies man with gold.
- Isaiah 25:2 χῶμα For you have made cities a heap, even cities made strong that their foundations should not fall: the city of ungodly men shall not be built for ever.
- Ezekiel 21:27 χῶμα Injustice, injustice, injustice, will I make it: woe to it: such shall it be until he comes to whom it belongs; and I will deliver it to him.
- Habakkuk 1:10 χῶμα And he shall be at his ease with kings, and princes are his toys, and he shall mock at every strong-hold, and shall cast a mound, and take possession of it.
About this word
About this word
χῶμα (chō̂ma), “mound, rampart,” 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 12 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 →