ἕλκω
draw, drag
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἕλκω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 22 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.
- Judges 5:14 ἕλκω Ephraim rooted them out in Amalec, behind you was Benjamin among your people: the inhabitants of Machir came down with me searching out the enemy, and from Zabulon came they that draw with the scribe's pen of record.
- Judges 20:2 ἕλκω And all the tribes of Israel stood before the Lord in the assembly of the people of God, four hundred thousand footmen that drew sword.
- Judges 20:15 ἕλκω And the children of Benjamin from their cities were numbered in that day, twenty-three thousand, every man drawing a sword, besides the inhabitants of Gabaa, who were numbered seven hundred chosen men of all the people, able to use both hands alike;
- Judges 20:17 ἕλκω And the men of Israel, exclusive of Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword; all these were men of war.
- Judges 20:25 ἕλκω And the children of Benjamin went forth to meet them from Gabaa on the second day, and destroyed of the children of Israel yet further eighteen thousand men down to the ground: all these drew sword.
- Judges 20:35 ἕλκω And the Lord struck Benjamin before the children of Israel; and the children of Israel destroyed of Benjamin in that day one hundred and twenty-five thousand men: all these drew sword.
- Judges 20:46 ἕλκω And all that fell of Benjamin were twenty-five thousand men that drew sword in that day: all these were men of might.
- 2 Samuel 22:17 ἕλκω He sent from above and took me; he drew me out of many waters.
- Job 20:28 ἕλκω Let destruction bring his house to an end; let a day of wrath come upon him.
- Job 28:18 ἕλκω Coral and fine pearl shall not be mentioned: but do you esteem wisdom above the most precious things.
- Job 39:10 ἕλκω And will you bind his yoke with thongs, or will he plow furrows for you in the plain?
- Psalms 9:30 ἕλκω He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.
- Psalms 118:131 ἕλκω I opened my mouth, and drew breath: for I earnestly longed after your commandments.
- Proverbs 25:20 ἕλκω As vinegar is bad for a sore, so trouble befalling the body afflicts the heart. As a moth in a garment, and a worm in wood, so the grief of a man hurts the heart.
- Ecclesiastes 1:5 ἕλκω And the sun arises, and the sun goes down and draws toward its place;
- Ecclesiastes 2:3 ἕλκω And I examined whether my heart would excite my flesh as with wine, (though my heart guided me in wisdom,) and I desired to lay hold of mirth, until I should see of what kind is the good to the sons of men, which they should do under the sun all the days of their life.
- Song of Solomon 1:4 ἕλκω They have drawn you: we will run after you, for the smell of your ointments: the king has brought me into closet: let us rejoice and be glad in you; we will love your breasts more than wine: righteousness loves you.
- Isaiah 10:15 ἕλκω Shall the axe glorify itself without him that hews with it? or shall the saw lift up itself without him that uses it, as if one should lift a rod or staff? but it shall not be so;
- Jeremiah 14:6 ἕλκω The wild asses stood by the forests, and snuffed up the wind; their eyes failed, because there was no grass.
- Jeremiah 45:13 ἕλκω And they drew him with the ropes, and lifted him out of the dungeon: and Jeremias remained in the court of the prison.
- Daniel 4:10 ἕλκω I saw in the night vision upon my bed, and, behold, a watcher and an holy one came down from heaven and cried aloud, and thus he said,
- Habakkuk 1:15 ἕλκω He has brought up destruction with a hook, and drawn one with a casting net, and caught another in his drags: therefore shall his heart rejoice and be glad.
About this word
About this word
ἕλκω (hélkō), “draw, drag,” 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 22 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 →