ἔλαφος
deer, stag
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἔλαφος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 20 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.
- Deuteronomy 12:15 ἔλαφος But you shall kill according to all your desire, and shall eat flesh according to the blessing of the Lord your God, which he has given you in every city; the unclean that is within you and the clean shall eat it on equal terms, as the doe or the stag.
- Deuteronomy 12:22 ἔλαφος As the doe and the stag are eaten, so shall you eat it; the unclean in you and the clean shall eat it in like manner.
- Deuteronomy 14:5 ἔλαφος the stag, and doe, and pygarg, and wild goat, and camelopard.
- Deuteronomy 15:22 ἔλαφος You shall eat it in your cities; the unclean in you and the clean shall eat it in like manner, as the doe or the stag.
- 2 Samuel 22:34 ἔλαφος He makes my feet like hart's feet, and sets me upon the high places.
- 1 Kings 2:46 ἔλαφος
- 1 Kings 5:3 ἔλαφος You knew my father David, that he could not build a house to the name of the Lord my God because of the wars that compassed him about, until the Lord put them under the soles of his feet.
- Job 39:1 ἔλαφος Say if you know the time of the bringing forth of the wild goats of the rock, and if you have marked the calving of the hinds:
- Psalms 17:34 ἔλαφος He instructs my hands for war: and you have made my arms as a brazen bow.
- Psalms 28:9 ἔλαφος The voice of the Lord strengthens the hinds, and will uncover the thickets: and in his temple every one speaks of his glory.
- Psalms 41:2 ἔλαφος My soul has thirsted for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
- Psalms 103:18 ἔλαφος The high mountains are a refuge for the stags, and the rock for the rabbits.
- Proverbs 5:19 ἔλαφος Let your loving hart and your graceful colt company with you, and let her be considered your own, and be with you at all times; for ravished with her love you shall be greatly increased.
- Proverbs 7:23 ἔλαφος and he hastens as a bird into a snare, not knowing that he is running for his life.
- Song of Solomon 2:9 ἔλαφος My kinsman is like a roe or a young hart on the mountains of Baethel: behold, he is behind our wall, looking through the windows, peeping through the lattices.
- Song of Solomon 2:17 ἔλαφος Until the day dawn, and the shadows depart, turn, my kinsman, be you like to a roe or young hart on the mountains of the ravines.
- Song of Solomon 8:14 ἔλαφος Away, my kinsman, and be like a doe or a fawn on the mountains of spices.
- Isaiah 34:15 ἔλαφος There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another's faces.
- Isaiah 35:6 ἔλαφος Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel of water in a thirsty land.
- Jeremiah 14:5 ἔλαφος And hinds calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.
About this word
About this word
ἔλαφος (élaphos), “deer, stag,” 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 20 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 →