ἐκδέρω
flay, skin
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐκδέρω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 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.
- Leviticus 1:6 ἐκδέρω And having flayed the whole burnt offering, they shall divide it by its limbs.
- 2 Chronicles 35:11 ἐκδέρω And they killed the passover, and the priests sprinkled the blood from their hand, and the Levites flayed the victims.
- Micah 2:8 ἐκδέρω Even beforetime my people withstood him as an enemy against his peace; they have stripped off his skin to remove hope in the conflict of war.
- Micah 3:3 ἐκδέρω even as they devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided them as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,
About this word
About this word
ἐκδέρω (ekdérō), “flay, skin,” 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 4 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 →
