διῶρυξ
canal, channel
Where this word appears
Every passage where διῶρυξ 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.
- Exodus 7:19 διῶρυξ And the Lord said to Moses, Say to your brother Aaron, Take your rod in your hand, and stretch forth your hand over the waters of Egypt, and over their rivers, and over their canals, and over their ponds, and over all their standing water, and it shall become blood: and there was blood in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and of stone.
- Exodus 8:1 διῶρυξ And the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharao, and you shall say to him, These things says the Lord: send forth my people, that they may serve me.
- Isaiah 19:6 διῶρυξ And the streams shall fail, and the canals of the river; and every reservoir of water shall be dried up, in every marsh also of reed and papyrus.
- Isaiah 27:12 διῶρυξ And it shall come to pass in that day that God shall fence men off from the channel of the river as far as Rhinocorura; but do you⌃ gather one by one the children of Israel.
- Isaiah 33:21 διῶρυξ for the name of the Lord is great to you: you⌃ shall have a place, even rivers and wide and spacious channels: you shall not go this way, neither a vessel with oars go thereby.
- Jeremiah 38:9 διῶρυξ They went forth with weeping, and I will bring them back with consolation, causing them to lodge by the channels of waters in a straight way, and they shall not err in it: for I am become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.
About this word
About this word
διῶρυξ (diō̂ryx), “canal, channel,” 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 →