δρυμός
forest, thicket
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where δρυμός appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 59 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.
- Deuteronomy 19:5 δρυμός And whoever shall enter with his neighbor into the thicket, to gather wood, if the hand of him that cuts wood with the axe should be violently shaken, and the axe head falling off from the handle should light on his neighbor, and he should die, he shall flee to one of these cities, and live.
- Joshua 17:15 δρυμός And Joshua said to them, If you be a great people, go up to the forest, and clear the land for yourself, If mount Ephraim be too little for you.
- 1 Samuel 14:25 δρυμός And Jaal was a wood abounding in swarms of bees on the face of the ground.
- 2 Samuel 18:6 δρυμός And all the people went out into the wood against Israel; and the battle was in the wood of Ephraim.
- 1 Kings 7:39 δρυμός And he put five bases on the right side of the house, and five on the left side of the house: and the sea was placed on the right side of the house eastward in the direction of the south.
- 2 Kings 2:24 δρυμός And he turned after them, and saw them, and cursed them in the name of the Lord. And, behold, there came out two bears out of the wood, and they tore forty and two children of them.
- 1 Chronicles 16:33 δρυμός Then shall the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord, for he is come to judge the earth.
- 2 Chronicles 9:16 δρυμός And three hundred buckles of beaten gold: the weight of three hundred gold shekels went to one buckler: and the king placed them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
- Psalms 28:9 δρυμός The voice of the Lord strengthens the hinds, and will uncover the thickets: and in his temple every one speaks of his glory.
- Ecclesiastes 2:6 δρυμός I made me pools of water, to water from them the timber-bearing wood.
- Song of Solomon 2:3 δρυμός As the apple among the trees of the wood, so is my kinsman among the sons. I desired his shadow, and sat down, and his fruit was sweet in my throat.
- Isaiah 7:2 δρυμός And a message was brought to the house of David, saying, Aram has conspired with Ephraim. And his soul was amazed, and the soul of his people, as in a wood a tree is moved by the wind.
- Jeremiah 5:6 δρυμός Therefore has a lion out of the forest struck them, and a wolf has destroyed them even to their houses, and a leopard has watched against their cities: all that go forth from them shall be hunted: for they have multiplied their ungodliness, they have strengthened themselves in their revoltings.
- Ezekiel 15:2 δρυμός And you, son of man—of all the wood, of the branches that are among the trees of the forest, what shall be made of the wood of the vine?
- Hosea 13:8 δρυμός I will meet them by the way of the Assyrians, as a she-bear excited, and I will rend the caul of their heart, and the lions' whelps of the thicket shall devour them there; the wild beasts of the field shall rend them in pieces.
- Amos 3:4 δρυμός Will a lion roar out of his thicket if he has no prey? will a lion's whelp utter his voice at all out of his lair, if he have taken nothing?
- Micah 3:12 δρυμός Therefore on your account Sion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall be as a storehouse of fruits, and the mountain of the house as a grove of the forest.
- Zechariah 11:2 δρυμός Let the pine howl, because the cedar has fallen; for the mighty men have been greatly afflicted: howl, you⌃ oaks of the land of Basan; for the thickly planted forest has been torn down.
About this word
About this word
δρυμός (drymós), “forest, thicket,” 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 59 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 →