ἐκτρίβω
destroy, wipe out
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἐκτρίβω appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 40 total occurrences). 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 19:13 ἐκτρίβω For we are going to destroy this place; for their cry has been raised up before the Lord, and the Lord has sent us to destroy it.
- Exodus 9:15 ἐκτρίβω For now I will stretch forth my hand and strike you and kill your people, and you shall be consumed from off the earth.
- Leviticus 6:21 ἐκτρίβω It shall be made with oil in a frying-pan; he shall offer it kneaded and in rolls, an offering of fragments, an offering of a sweet savor to the Lord.
- Numbers 14:15 ἐκτρίβω And if you shall destroy this nation as one man; then all the nations that have heard your name shall speak, saying,
- Deuteronomy 2:12 ἐκτρίβω And the Chorrhite lived in Seir before, and the sons of Esau destroyed them, and utterly consumed them from before them; and they lived in their place, as Israel did to the land of his inheritance, which the Lord gave to them.
- Joshua 6:18 ἐκτρίβω But keep yourselves strictly from the accursed thing, lest you⌃ set your mind upon and take of the accursed thing, and you⌃ make the camp of the children of Israel an accursed thing, and destroy us.
- 2 Chronicles 20:23 ἐκτρίβω Then the children of Ammon and Moab rose up against the dwellers in mount Seir, to destroy and consume them; and when they had made an end of destroying the inhabitants of Seir, they rose up against one another so that they were utterly destroyed.
- Ezra 19:24 ἐκτρίβω
- Job 9:17 ἐκτρίβω Let him not crush me with a dark storm: but he has made by bruises many without cause.
- Isaiah 22:17 ἐκτρίβω Behold now, the Lord of hosts casts forth and will utterly destroy such a man, and will take away your robe and your glorious crown,
- Jeremiah 9:20 ἐκτρίβω Hear now, you⌃ women, the word of God, and let your ears receive the words of his mouth, and teach your daughters lamentation, and every woman her neighbor a dirge.
- Ezekiel 43:8 ἐκτρίβω when they set my door-way by their door-way, and my thresholds near to their thresholds: and they made my wall as it were joining myself and them, and they profaned my holy name with their iniquities which they wrought: and I destroyed them in my wrath and with slaughter.
- Amos 8:4 ἐκτρίβω Hear now this, you⌃ that oppress the poor in the morning, and drive the needy ones by tyranny from the earth,
About this word
About this word
ἐκτρίβω (ektríbō), “destroy, wipe 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 40 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 →