ἐκπεταννύω
spread out, stretch out
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐκπεταννύω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 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.
- Proverbs 13:16 ἐκπεταννύω Every prudent man acts with knowledge: but the fool displays his own mischief.
- Ezekiel 12:13 ἐκπεταννύω And I will spread out my net upon him, and he shall be caught in my toils: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; but he shall not see it, though he shall die there.
- Ezekiel 17:20 ἐκπεταννύω And I will spread a net upon him, and he shall be caught in its snare.
About this word
About this word
ἐκπεταννύω (ekpetannýō), “spread out, stretch out,” 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 3 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 →
