ἐγχειρίδιον
dagger, knife
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐγχειρίδιον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 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.
- Exodus 20:25 ἐγχειρίδιον And if you will make to me an altar of stones, you shall not build them hewn stones; for you have lifted up your tool upon them, and they are defiled.
- Jeremiah 27:42 ἐγχειρίδιον the people is fierce, and will have no mercy: their voices shall sound as the sea, they shall ride upon horses, prepared for war, like fire, against you, O daughter of Babylon.
- Ezekiel 21:8 ἐγχειρίδιον And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 21:9 ἐγχειρίδιον Son of man, prophesy, and you shall say, Thus says the Lord; Say, Sword, sword, be sharpened and rage,
- Ezekiel 21:10 ἐγχειρίδιον that you may kill victims; be sharpened that you may be bright, ready for slaughter, kill, set at nothing, despise every tree.
About this word
About this word
ἐγχειρίδιον (encheirídion), “dagger, knife,” 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 5 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 →
