ἐκσπάω
draw out, pull out
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐκσπάω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 18 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.
- Judges 3:22 ἐκσπάω and drove in also the haft after the blade, and the fat closed in upon the blade, for he drew not out the dagger from his belly.
- 1 Samuel 17:15 ἐκσπάω And David departed and returned from Saul, to feed his father’s sheep in Bethleem;
- Job 29:17 ἐκσπάω And I broke the jaw teeth of the unrighteous; I plucked the spoil out of the midst of their teeth.
- Psalms 21:10 ἐκσπάω I was cast on you from the womb: you are my God from my mother's belly.
- Psalms 24:15 ἐκσπάω My eyes are continually to the Lord; for he shall draw my feet out of the snare.
- Psalms 128:6 ἐκσπάω Let them be as the grass of the housetops, which withers before it is plucked up.
- Jeremiah 22:24 ἐκσπάω As I live, says the Lord, though Jechonias son of Joakim king of Juda were indeed the seal upon my right hand, thence would I pluck you;
- Ezekiel 11:19 ἐκσπάω And I will give them another heart, and will put a new spirit within them; and will extract the heart of stone from their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh:
- Ezekiel 17:9 ἐκσπάω Therefore say, Thus says the Lord; Shall it prosper? shall not the roots of her tender stem and her fruit be blighted? yes, all her early shoots shall be dried up, and that not by a mighty arm, nor by many people, to tear her up from her roots.
- Ezekiel 21:8 ἐκσπάω And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 21:10 ἐκσπάω that you may kill victims; be sharpened that you may be bright, ready for slaughter, kill, set at nothing, despise every tree.
- Amos 3:12 ἐκσπάω Thus says the Lord; As when a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall be drawn forth the children of Israel who dwell in Samaria in the presence of a foreign tribe, and in Damascus.
- Amos 3:12 ἐκσπάω Thus says the Lord; As when a shepherd rescues from the mouth of a lion two legs or a piece of an ear, so shall be drawn forth the children of Israel who dwell in Samaria in the presence of a foreign tribe, and in Damascus.
- Amos 4:11 ἐκσπάω I overthrew you, as God overthrew Sodoma and Gomorrha, and you⌃ became as a brand plucked out of the fire: yet not even thus did you⌃ return to me, says the Lord.
- Amos 9:15 ἐκσπάω And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be plucked up from the land which I have given them, says the Lord God Almighty.
- Habakkuk 2:9 ἐκσπάω Woe to him that covets an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evils.
- Zechariah 3:2 ἐκσπάω And the Lords said to the Devil,
- Zechariah 13:7 ἐκσπάω Awake, O sword, against my shepherds, and against the man who is my citizen, says the Lord Almighty: strike the shepherds, and draw out the sheep: and I will bring my hand upon the little ones.
About this word
About this word
ἐκσπάω (ekspáō), “draw out, pull 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 18 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 →