ἐκπετάζω
spread out, stretch out
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐκπετάζω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 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.
- Ezra 9:5 ἐκπετάζω And at the evening sacrifice I rose up from my humiliation; and when I had torn my garments, then I trembled, and I bow myself on my knees, and spread out my hands to the Lord God,
- Job 20:8 ἐκπετάζω Like a dream that has fled away, he shall not be found; and he has fled like a vision of the night.
- Job 26:9 ἐκπετάζω He keeps back the face of his throne, stretching out his cloud upon it.
- Isaiah 54:3 ἐκπετάζω spread forth your tent yet to the right and the left: for your seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and you shall make the desolate cities to be inhabited.
- Lamentations 1:10 ἐκπετάζω JOD. The oppressor has stretched out his hand on all her desirable things: for she has seen the Gentiles entering into her sanctuary, concerning whom you did command that they should not enter into your congregation.
- Hosea 9:11 ἐκπετάζω Ephraim has flown away as a bird; their glories from the birth, and the travail, and the conception.
- Nahum 3:16 ἐκπετάζω You have multiplied your merchandise beyond the stars of heaven: the palmerworm has attacked it, and has flown away.
About this word
About this word
ἐκπετάζω (ekpetázō), “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 7 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 →