ἔπαλξις
battlement, parapet
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἔπαλξις appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 5 total occurrences). 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.
- Song of Solomon 8:9 ἔπαλξις If she is a wall, let us build upon her silver bulwarks; and if she is a door, let us carve for her cedar panels.
- Isaiah 21:11 ἔπαλξις Call to me out of Seir; guard you⌃ the bulwarks.
- Isaiah 54:12 ἔπαλξις and I will make your buttresses jasper, and your gates crystal, and your border precious stones.
- Jeremiah 27:15 ἔπαλξις and prevail against her: her hands are weakened, her bulwarks are fallen, and her wall is broken down: for it is vengeance from God: take vengeance upon her; as she has done, do to her.
About this word
About this word
ἔπαλξις (épalxis), “battlement, parapet,” 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 →
