χωνεύω
cast (metal), smelt
Where this word appears
Every passage where χωνεύω 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.
- Exodus 26:37 χωνεύω And you shall make for the veil five posts, and you shall gild them with gold; and their capitals shall be gold; and you shall cast for them five brazen sockets.
- Exodus 38:3 χωνεύω and he cast for it four golden rings, two on the one side, and two on the other,
- Exodus 38:10 χωνεύω and cast for it four rings: two on the one side and two on the other side, broad, so that men should lift it with the staves in them.
- Exodus 38:18 χωνεύω He overlaid the posts with silver, and cast for each post golden rings, and gilded the bars with gold; and he gilded the posts of the veil with gold, and made the hooks of gold.
- Exodus 38:20 χωνεύω He cast the silver capitals of the tabernacle, and the brazen capitals of the door of the tabernacle, and the gate of the court; and he made silver hooks for the posts, he overlaid them with silver on the posts.
- 1 Kings 7:3 χωνεύω
- 2 Kings 22:9 χωνεύω And he went into the house of the Lord to the king, and reported the matter to the king, and said, Your servants have collected the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and have given it into the hand of the workmen that are appointed in the house of the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 4:3 χωνεύω And beneath it the likeness of calves, they compass it round about: ten cubits compass the laver round about, they cast the calves two rows in their casting,
- 2 Chronicles 4:17 χωνεύω In the country round about Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground in the house of Socchoth, and between that and Saredatha.
- 2 Chronicles 34:17 χωνεύω And they have collected the money that was found in the house of the Lord, and given it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of them that do the work.
- Isaiah 40:19 χωνεύω Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt it over, and made it a similitude?
- Jeremiah 10:14 χωνεύω Every man is deprived of knowledge, every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images; for he has cast false gods, there is no breath in them.
- Jeremiah 28:17 χωνεύω Every man has completely lost understanding; every goldsmith is confounded because of his graven images: for they have cast false gods, there is no breath in them.
- Ezekiel 22:20 χωνεύω As silver, and brass, and iron, and tin, and lead, are gathered into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire into it, that they may be melted: so will I take you in my wrath, and I will gather and melt you.
- Ezekiel 22:20 χωνεύω As silver, and brass, and iron, and tin, and lead, are gathered into the midst of the furnace, to blow fire into it, that they may be melted: so will I take you in my wrath, and I will gather and melt you.
- Ezekiel 22:21 χωνεύω And I will blow upon you in the fire of my wrath, and you⌃ shall be melted in the midst thereof.
- Ezekiel 22:22 χωνεύω As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you⌃ be melted in the midst thereof; and you⌃ shall know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath upon you.
- Ezekiel 22:22 χωνεύω As silver is melted in the midst of a furnace, so shall you⌃ be melted in the midst thereof; and you⌃ shall know that I the Lord have poured out my wrath upon you.
- Malachi 3:3 χωνεύω He shall sit to melt and purify as it were silver, and as it were gold: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver, and they shall offer to the Lord an offering in righteousness.
About this word
About this word
χωνεύω (chōneúō), “cast (metal), smelt,” 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 →