ἐκθλίβω
press hard, oppress
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐκθλίβω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 21 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.
- Genesis 40:11 ἐκθλίβω And the cup of Pharao was in my hand; and I took the bunch of grapes, and squeezed it into the cup, and gave the cup into Pharao's hand.
- Leviticus 22:24 ἐκθλίβω That which has broken testicles, or is crushed or gelt or mutilated, —you shall not offer them to the Lord, neither shall you⌃ sacrifice them upon your land.
- Joshua 19:47 ἐκθλίβω This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan, according to their families, these are their cities and their villages: and the children of Dan did not drive out the Amorite who afflicted them in the mountain; and the Amorite would not suffer them to come down into the valley, but they forcibly took from them the border of their portion.
- Judges 1:34 ἐκθλίβω And the Amorite drove out the children of Dan into the mountains, for they did not suffer them to come down into the valley.
- Judges 2:15 ἐκθλίβω among whoever they went; and the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord spoke, and as the Lord swore to them; and he greatly afflicted them.
- Judges 2:18 ἐκθλίβω And because the Lord raised them up judges, so the Lord was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved at their groaning by reason of them that besieged them and afflicted them.
- Judges 16:16 ἐκθλίβω And it came to pass as she pressed him sore with her words continually, and straitened him, that his spirit failed almost to death.
- 2 Kings 13:22 ἐκθλίβω And Azael greatly afflicted Israel all the days of Joachaz.
- Psalms 17:39 ἐκθλίβω For you have girded me with strength for war: you have beaten down under me all that rose up against me.
- Psalms 34:5 ἐκθλίβω Let them be as dust before the wind, and an angel of the Lord afflicting them.
- Psalms 41:10 ἐκθλίβω While my bones were breaking, they that afflicted me reproached me; while they said to me daily, Where is your God?
- Psalms 42:2 ἐκθλίβω For you, O God, are my strength: therefore have you cast me off? and why do I go sad of countenance, while the enemy oppresses me?
- Psalms 118:157 ἐκθλίβω Many are they that persecute me and oppress me: but I have not declined from your testimonies.
- Proverbs 12:13 ἐκθλίβω For the sin of his lips a sinner falls into snare; but a righteous man escapes from them. He whose looks are gentle shall be pitied, but he that contends in the gates will afflict souls.
- Isaiah 29:2 ἐκθλίβω For I will grievously afflict Ariel: and her strength and her wealth shall be mine.
- Lamentations 4:12 ἐκθλίβω LAMED. The kings of the earth, even all that dwell in the world, believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter through the gates of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 34:21 ἐκθλίβω You⌃ did thrust with your sides and shoulders, and pushed with your horns, and you⌃ cruelly treated all the sick.
- Amos 6:14 ἐκθλίβω you⌃ who rejoice at vanity, who say, Have we not possessed horns by our own strength?
- Micah 7:2 ἐκθλίβω For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders his way aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbor:
- Micah 7:2 ἐκθλίβω For the godly is perished from the earth; and there is none among men that orders his way aright: they all quarrel even to blood: they grievously afflict every one his neighbor:
- Zephaniah 1:17 ἐκθλίβω And I will greatly afflict the men, and they shall walk as blind men, because they have sinned against the Lord; therefore he shall pour out their blood as dust, and their flesh as dung.
About this word
About this word
ἐκθλίβω (ekthlíbō), “press hard, oppress,” 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 21 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 →