δόρυ
spear
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where δόρυ appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 44 total occurrences). 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.
- 1 Samuel 13:19 δόρυ And there was not found a smith in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make themselves sword or spear.
- 2 Samuel 1:6 δόρυ And the young man that brought the tidings, said to him, I happened accidentally to be upon mount Gelbue; and, behold, Saul was leaning upon his spear, and, behold, the chariots and captains of horse pressed hard upon him.
- 1 Kings 10:16 δόρυ And Solomon made three hundred spears of beaten gold: three hundred shekels of gold were upon one spear.
- 1 Chronicles 11:23 δόρυ And he struck an Egyptian, a wonderful man five cubits high; and in the hand of the Egyptian there was a spear like a weavers' beam; and Banaia went down to him with a staff, and took the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.
- 2 Chronicles 11:12 δόρυ shields and spears in every several city, and he fortified them very strongly, and he had on his side Juda and Benjamin.
- Job 41:18 δόρυ For he considers iron as chaff, and brass as rotten wood.
- Jeremiah 26:4 δόρυ and harness the horses: mount, you⌃ horsemen, and stand ready in your helmets; advance the spears, and put on your breastplates.
- Daniel 11:15 δόρυ And the king of the north shall come in, and cast up a mound, and take strong cities: and the arms of the king of the south shall withstand, and his chosen ones shall rise up, but there shall be no strength to stand.
- Micah 4:3 δόρυ And he shall judge among many peoples, and shall rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into sickles; and nation shall no more lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn to war any more.
About this word
About this word
δόρυ (dóry), “spear,” 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 44 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 →
