ἐγχώριος
native, inhabitant
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐγχώριος 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 34:1 ἐγχώριος And Dina, the daughter of Lea, whom she bore to Jacob, went forth to observe the daughters of the inhabitants.
- Exodus 12:49 ἐγχώριος There shall be one law to the native, and to the proselyte coming among you.
- Leviticus 18:26 ἐγχώριος And you⌃ shall keep all my statutes and all my ordinances, and you⌃ shall do none of these abominations; neither the native, nor the stranger that joins himself with you:
- Leviticus 24:22 ἐγχώριος There shall be one judgment for the stranger and the native, for I am the Lord your God.
- Numbers 15:29 ἐγχώριος There shall be one law for the native among the children of Israel, and for the stranger that abides among them, whoever shall commit a trespass unwillingly.
- Joshua 9:22 ἐγχώριος And Joshua called them together and said to them, Why have you⌃ deceived me, saying, We live very far from you; whereas you⌃ are fellow-countrymen of those who dwell among us?
About this word
About this word
ἐγχώριος (enchṓrios), “native, inhabitant,” 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 →
