ἔδεσμα
food, dish
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἔδεσμα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 9 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 27:4 ἔδεσμα and make me meats, as I like them, and bring them to me that I may eat, that my soul may bless you, before I die.
- Genesis 27:7 ἔδεσμα Bring me venison, and prepare me meats, that I may eat and bless you before the Lord before I die.
- Genesis 27:9 ἔδεσμα And go to the cattle and take for me thence two kids, tender and good, and I will make them meats for your father, as he likes.
- Genesis 27:14 ἔδεσμα So he went and took and brought them to his mother; and his mother made meats, as his father liked them.
- Genesis 27:17 ἔδεσμα And she gave the meats, and the loaves which she had prepared, into the hands of Jacob her son.
- Genesis 27:31 ἔδεσμα And he also had made meats and brought them to his father; and he said to his father, Let my father arise and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me.
- 1 Samuel 15:9 ἔδεσμα And Saul and all the people saved Agag alive, and the best of the flocks, and of the herds, and of the fruits, of the vineyards, and of all the good things; and they would not destroy them: but every worthless and refuse thing they destroyed.
- Psalms 54:15 ἔδεσμα Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into Hades, for iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.
- Proverbs 23:3 ἔδεσμα desire not his provisions; for these belong to a false life.
About this word
About this word
ἔδεσμα (édesma), “food, dish,” 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 9 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 →