δρόσος
dew
Where this word appears
Every passage where δρόσος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 35 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.
- Genesis 27:28 δρόσος And may God give you of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of corn and wine.
- Genesis 27:39 δρόσος And Isaac his father answered and said to him, Behold, your dwelling shall be of the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above.
- Exodus 16:13 δρόσος And it was evening, and quails came up and covered the camp:
- Numbers 11:9 δρόσος And when the dew came upon the camp by night, the manna came down upon it.
- Deuteronomy 32:2 δρόσος Let my speech be looked for as the rain, and my words come down as dew, as the shower upon the herbage, and as snow upon the grass.
- Deuteronomy 33:13 δρόσος And to Joseph he said, His land is of the blessing of the Lord, of the seasons of sky and dew, and of the deeps of wells below,
- Deuteronomy 33:28 δρόσος And Israel shall dwell in confidence alone on the land of Jacob, with corn and wine; and the sky shall be misty with dew upon you.
- Judges 5:4 δρόσος O Lord, in your going forth on Seir, when you went forth out of the land of Edom, the earth quaked and the heaven dropped dews, and the clouds dropped water.
- Judges 6:37 δρόσος behold, I put the fleece of wool in the threshing floor: if there be dew on the fleece only, and drought on all the ground, I shall know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have said.
- Judges 6:38 δρόσος And it was so: and he rose up early in the morning, and wrung the fleece, and dew dropped from the fleece, a bowl full of water.
- Judges 6:39 δρόσος And Gedeon said to God, Let not, I pray you, your anger be kindled with me, and I will speak yet once; I will even yet make one trial more with the fleece: let now the drought be upon the fleece only, and let there be dew on all the ground.
- Judges 6:40 δρόσος And God did so in that night; and there was drought on the fleece only, and on all the ground there was dew.
- 2 Samuel 1:21 δρόσος You⌃ mountains of Gelbue, let not dew no rain descend upon you, nor fields of first fruits be upon you, for there the shield of the mighty ones has been grievously assailed; the shield of Saul was not anointed with oil.
- 2 Samuel 17:12 δρόσος And we will come upon him in one of the places where we shall find him, and we will encamp against him, as the dew falls upon the earth; and we will not leave of him and of his men so much as one.
- 1 Kings 17:1 δρόσος And Eliu the prophet, the Thesbite of Thesbae of Galaad, said to Achaab, As the Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, lives, before whom I stand, there shall not be these years dew nor rain, except by the word of my mouth.
- Job 24:20 δρόσος Then is his sin brought to remembrance, and he vanishes like a vapor of dew: but let what he has done be recompensed to him, and let every unrighteous one be crushed like rotten wood.
- Job 29:19 δρόσος My root was spread out by the water, and the dew would lodge on my crop.
- Job 38:28 δρόσος Who is the rain's father? and who has generated the drops of dew?
- Psalms 132:3 δρόσος As the dew of Aermon, that comes down on the mountains of Sion: for there, the Lord commanded the blessing, even life for ever.
- Proverbs 3:20 δρόσος By understanding were the depths broken up, and the clouds dropped water.
- Proverbs 19:12 δρόσος The threatening of a king is like the roaring of a lion; but as dew on the grass, so is his favor.
- Proverbs 26:1 δρόσος As dew in harvest, and as rain in summer, so honor is not seemly for a fool.
- Song of Solomon 5:2 δρόσος I sleep, but my heart is awake: the voice of my kinsman knocks at the door, saying, Open, open to me, my companion, my sister, my dove, my perfect one: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
- Isaiah 18:4 δρόσος For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.
- Isaiah 26:19 δρόσος The dead shall rise, and they that are in the tombs shall be raised, and they that are in the earth shall rejoice: for the dew from you is healing to them: but the land of the ungodly shall perish.
- Daniel 3:50 δρόσος
- Daniel 3:64 δρόσος
- Daniel 3:68 δρόσος
- Daniel 4:9 δρόσος its leaves were fair, and its fruit abundant, and in it was meat for all; and under it the wild beasts of the field took shelter, and the birds of the sky lodged in the branches of it, and all flesh was fed of it.
- Hosea 6:4 δρόσος let us follow on to know the Lord: we shall find him ready as the morning, and he will come to us as the early and latter rain to the earth.
- Hosea 13:3 δρόσος Therefore shall they be as a morning cloud, and as the early dew that passes away, as chaff blown away from the threshing floor, and as a vapor from tears.
- Hosea 14:6 δρόσος I will be as dew to Israel: he shall bloom as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Libanus.
- Micah 5:6 δρόσος And they shall tend the Assyrian with a sword, and the land of Nebrod with her trench: and he shall deliver you from the Assyrian, when he shall come upon your land, and when he shall invade your coasts.
- Haggai 1:10 δρόσος therefore shall the sky withhold dew, and the earth shall keep back her produce.
- Zechariah 8:12 δρόσος But I will show peace: the vine shall yield her fruit, and the land shall yield her produce, and the heaven shall give its dew: and I will give as an inheritance all these things to the remnant of my people.
About this word
About this word
δρόσος (drósos), “dew,” 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 35 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 →