ἐκζέω
boil up, swarm
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐκζέω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 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 49:4 ἐκζέω You were insolent like water, burst not forth with violence, for you went up to the bed of your father; then you defiled the couch, whereupon you went up.
- Exodus 16:20 ἐκζέω But they did not listen to Moses, but some left of it till the morning; and it bred worms and stank: and Moses was irritated with them.
- 1 Samuel 5:6 ἐκζέω And the hand of the Lord was heavy upon Azotus, and he brought evil upon them, and it burst out upon them into the ships, and mice sprang up in the midst of their country, and there was a great and indiscriminate mortality in the city.
- 1 Samuel 6:1 ἐκζέω And the ark was seven months in the country of the Philistines, and their land brought forth swarms of mice.
- Job 30:27 ἐκζέω My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me.
- Ezekiel 47:9 ἐκζέω And it shall come to pass, that every animal of living and moving creatures, all on which the river shall come, shall live: and there shall be there very many fish; for this water shall go there, and it shall heal them, and they shall live: everything on which the river shall come shall live.
About this word
About this word
ἐκζέω (ekzéō), “boil up, swarm,” 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 6 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 →