ἔκλειψις
failing, eclipse
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἔκλειψις appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 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.
- Deuteronomy 28:48 ἔκλειψις And you shall serve your enemies, which the Lord will send forth against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in the lack of all things; and you shall wear upon your neck a yoke of iron until he shall have destroyed you.
- Ezra 13:21 ἔκλειψις
- Proverbs 14:28 ἔκλειψις In a populous nation is the glory of a king: but in the failure of people is the ruin of a prince.
- Isaiah 17:4 ἔκλειψις There shall be in that day a failure of the glory of Jacob, and the riches of his glory shall be shaken.
- Ezekiel 5:16 ἔκλειψις And when I have sent against them shafts of famine, then they shall be consumed, and I will break the strength of your bread.
- Zephaniah 1:2 ἔκλειψις Let there be an utter cutting off from the face of the land, says the Lord.
About this word
About this word
ἔκλειψις (ékleipsis), “failing, eclipse,” 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 6 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 →
