ἐντείνω
stretch, bend (bow)
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐντείνω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 20 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.
- 1 Kings 22:34 ἐντείνω And one drew a bow with a good aim, and struck the king of Israel between the lungs and the breast-plate: and he said to his charioteer, Turn your hands, and carry me away out of the battle, for I am wounded.
- 2 Chronicles 18:33 ἐντείνω And a man drew a bow with a good aim, and struck the king of Israel between the lungs and the breast-plate: and he said to the charioteer, Turn your hand, drive me out of the battle, for I am wounded.
- Psalms 7:13 ἐντείνω And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; he has completed his arrows for the raging ones.
- Psalms 10:2 ἐντείνω Flee to the mountains as a sparrow?
- Psalms 36:14 ἐντείνω Sinners have drawn their swords, they have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy one, and to kill the upright in heart.
- Psalms 44:5 ἐντείνω Your weapons are sharpened, Mighty One, (the nations shall fall under you) they are in the heart of the king's enemies.
- Psalms 57:8 ἐντείνω They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun.
- Psalms 63:4 ἐντείνω to shoot in secret at the blameless; they will shoot him suddenly, and will not fear.
- Psalms 77:9 ἐντείνω The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting with the bow, turned back in the day of battle.
- Isaiah 5:28 ἐντείνω Whose arrows are sharp, and their bows bent; their horses' hoofs are counted as solid rock: their chariot-wheels are as a storm.
- Jeremiah 4:29 ἐντείνω The whole land has recoiled from the noise of the horseman and the bent bow; they have gone into the caves, and have hidden themselves in the groves, and have gone up upon the rocks: every city was abandoned, no man lived in them.
- Jeremiah 9:2 ἐντείνω Who would give me a most distant lodge in the wilderness, that I might leave my people, and depart from them? for they all commit adultery, an assembly of treacherous men.
- Jeremiah 26:9 ἐντείνω Mount you⌃ the horses, prepare the chariots; go forth, you⌃ warriors of the Ethiopians, and Libyans armed with shields; and mount, you⌃ Lydians, bend the bow.
- Jeremiah 27:29 ἐντείνω Summon many against Babylon, even every one that bends the bow: camp against her round about; let no one of her people escape: render to her according to her works; according to all that she has done, do to her: for she has resisted the Lord, the Holy God of Israel.
- Lamentations 2:4 ἐντείνω DALETH. He has bent his bow as an opposing enemy: he has strengthened his right hand as an adversary, and has destroyed all the desirable things of my eyes in the tabernacle of the daughter of Sion: he has poured forth his anger as fire.
- Lamentations 3:12 ἐντείνω HE. He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
- Hosea 7:16 ἐντείνω They turned aside to that which is not, they became as a bent bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, by reason of the unbridled state of their tongue: this is their setting at nothing in the land of Egypt.
- Habakkuk 3:9 ἐντείνω Surely you did bend they bow at scepters, says the Lord. Pause. The land of rivers shall be torn asunder.
- Habakkuk 3:9 ἐντείνω Surely you did bend they bow at scepters, says the Lord. Pause. The land of rivers shall be torn asunder.
- Zechariah 9:13 ἐντείνω For I have bent you, O Juda, for myself as a bow, I have filled Ephraim; and I will raise up your children, O Sion, against the children of the Greeks, and I will handle you as the sword of a warrior.
About this word
About this word
ἐντείνω (enteínō), “stretch, bend (bow),” 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 20 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 →