δρομεύς
runner, courier
Where this word appears
Every passage where δρομεύς appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 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.
- Job 9:25 δρομεύς But my life is swifter than a post: my days have fled away, and they knew it not.
- Proverbs 6:11 δρομεύς Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
- Proverbs 6:11 δρομεύς Then poverty comes upon you as an evil traveller, and lack as a swift courier: but if you be diligent, your harvest shall arrive as a fountain, and poverty shall flee away as a bad courier.
- Proverbs 24:34 δρομεύς But if you do this, your poverty will come speedily; and your lack like a swift courier.
- Amos 2:14 δρομεύς And flight shall perish from the runner, and the strong shall not hold fast his strength, and the warrior shall not save his life:
About this word
About this word
δρομεύς (dromeús), “runner, courier,” 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 5 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 →
