ἐλάτη
fir, pine wood
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐλάτη appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 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 21:15 ἐλάτη And the water failed out of the skin, and she cast the child under a fir tree.
- Numbers 10:2 ἐλάτη Make to yourself two silver trumpets: you shall make them of beaten work; and they shall be to you for the purpose of calling the assembly, and of removing the camps.
- Numbers 17:3 ἐλάτη And write the name of Aaron on the rod of Levi; for it is one rod for each: they shall give them according to the tribe of the house of their families.
- 2 Chronicles 9:16 ἐλάτη And three hundred buckles of beaten gold: the weight of three hundred gold shekels went to one buckler: and the king placed them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.
- Psalms 97:6 ἐλάτη With trumpets of metal, and the sound of a trumpet of horn make a joyful noise to the Lord before the king.
- Song of Solomon 5:11 ἐλάτη His head is as very fine gold, his locks are flowing, black as a raven.
- Ezekiel 31:8 ἐλάτη And such cypresses as this were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,
About this word
About this word
ἐλάτη (elátē), “fir, pine wood,” 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 7 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 →