δύω
sink, set (sun)
Where this word appears
Every passage where δύω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 19 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 28:11 δύω And came to a certain place and slept there, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it at his head, and lay down to sleep in that place,
- Exodus 15:10 δύω You sent forth your wind, the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty water.
- Leviticus 22:7 δύω and the sun go down, and then he shall be clean; and then shall he eat of all the holy things, for they are his bread.
- Deuteronomy 23:12 δύω And you shall have a place outside of the camp, and you shall go out there,
- Judges 19:14 δύω And they passed by and went on, and the sun went down upon them near to Gabaa, which is in Benjamin.
- 2 Samuel 2:24 δύω And Joab and Abessa pursued after Abenner, and the sun went down: and they went as far as the hill of Amman, which is in the front of Gai, by the desert way of Gabaon.
- 2 Samuel 3:35 δύω And all the people assembled to weep for him. And all the people came to cause David to eat bread while it was yet day: and David swore, saying, God do so to me, and more also, if I eat bread or any thing else before the sun goes down.
- 2 Samuel 13:18 δύω And she had on her a variegated robe, for so were the king's daughters that were virgins attired in their apparel: and his servant led her forth, and shut the door after her.
- 1 Kings 22:36 δύω And the herald of the army stood at sunset, saying, Let every man go to his own city and his own land,
- 2 Chronicles 18:34 δύω And the battle turned in that day; and the king of Israel remained on the chariot against Syria until evening, and died at sunset.
- Job 2:9 δύω And when much time had passed, his wife said to him, How long will you hold out, saying, Behold, I wait yet a little while, expecting the hope of my deliverance? for, behold, your memorial is abolished from the earth, even your sons and daughters, the pangs and pains of my womb which I bore in vain with sorrows; and you yourself sit down to spend the nights in the open air among the corruption of worms, and I am a wanderer and a servant from place to place and house to house, waiting for the setting of the sun, that I may rest from my labors and my pangs which now beset me: but say some word against the Lord, and die.
- Ecclesiastes 1:5 δύω And the sun arises, and the sun goes down and draws toward its place;
- Isaiah 29:4 δύω And your words shall be brought down to the earth, and your words shall sink down to the earth, and your voice shall be as they that speak out of the earth, and your voice shall be lowered to the ground.
- Isaiah 60:20 δύω For the sun shall no more set, nor shall the moon be eclipsed; for the Lord shall be your everlasting light, and the days of your mourning shall be completed.
- Joel 2:10 δύω Before them the earth shall be confounded, and the sky shall be shaken: the sun and the moon shall be darkened, and the stars shall withdraw their light.
- Joel 4:15 δύω
- Amos 8:9 δύω And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at noon, and the light shall be darkened on the earth by day:
- Jonah 2:6 δύω Water was poured around me to the soul: the lowest deep compassed me, my head went down
- Micah 3:6 δύω therefore there shall be night to you instead of a vision, and there shall be to you darkness instead of prophecy; and the sun shall go down upon the prophets, and the day shall be dark upon them.
About this word
About this word
δύω (dýō), “sink, set (sun),” 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 19 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 →