ἐνφράσσω
block up, stop up
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐνφράσσω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 16 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 26:15 ἐνφράσσω And all the wells which the servants of his father had dug in the time of his father, the Phylistines stopped them, and filled them with earth.
- Genesis 26:18 ἐνφράσσω And Isaac dug again the wells of water, which the servants of his father Abraam had dug, and the Phylistines had stopped them, after the death of his father Abraam; and he gave them names, according to the names by which his father named them.
- 2 Kings 3:19 ἐνφράσσω And you⌃ shall strike every strong city, and you⌃ shall cut down every good tree, and you⌃ shall stop all wells of water, and spoil every good piece of land with stones.
- 2 Kings 3:25 ἐνφράσσω And they razed the cities, and cast every man his stone on every good piece of land and filled it; and they stopped every well, and cut down every good tree, until they left only the stones of the wall cast down; and the slingers compassed the land, and struck it.
- 2 Chronicles 32:3 ἐνφράσσω And he took counsel with his elders and his mighty men to stop the wells of water which were without the city: and they helped him.
- 2 Chronicles 32:4 ἐνφράσσω And he collected many people, and stopped the wells of water, and the river that flowed through the city, saying, Lest the king of Assyria come, and find much water, and strengthen himself.
- 2 Chronicles 32:30 ἐνφράσσω The same Ezekias stopped up the course of the water of Gion above, and brought the water down straight south of the city of David. And Ezekias prospered in all his works.
- Job 5:16 ἐνφράσσω And let the weak have hope, but the mouth of the unjust be stopped.
- Psalms 62:12 ἐνφράσσω
- Psalms 106:42 ἐνφράσσω The upright shall see and rejoice; and all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
- Isaiah 22:7 ἐνφράσσω And it shall be that your choice valleys shall be filled with chariots, and horsemen shall block up your gates.
- Lamentations 3:9 ἐνφράσσω DALETH. He has built up my ways, he has hedged my paths;
- Micah 4:14 ἐνφράσσω
- Zechariah 14:5 ἐνφράσσω And the valley of my mountains shall be closed up, and the valley of the mountains shall be joined on to Jasod, and shall be blocked up as it was blocked up in the days of the earthquake, in the days of Ozias king of Juda; and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with him.
- Zechariah 14:5 ἐνφράσσω And the valley of my mountains shall be closed up, and the valley of the mountains shall be joined on to Jasod, and shall be blocked up as it was blocked up in the days of the earthquake, in the days of Ozias king of Juda; and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with him.
- Zechariah 14:5 ἐνφράσσω And the valley of my mountains shall be closed up, and the valley of the mountains shall be joined on to Jasod, and shall be blocked up as it was blocked up in the days of the earthquake, in the days of Ozias king of Juda; and the Lord my God shall come, and all the saints with him.
About this word
About this word
ἐνφράσσω (enphrássō), “block up, stop up,” 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 16 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 →