ἐπάνωθεν
from above, over
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἐπάνωθεν appears in the Greek Septuagint — 30 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 25:20 ἐπάνωθεν The cherubs shall stretch forth their wings above, overshadowing the propitiatory with their wings; and their faces shall be toward each other, the faces of the cherubs shall be toward the propitiatory.
- Exodus 26:14 ἐπάνωθεν And you shall make for a covering of the tabernacle rams' skins dyed red, and blue skins as coverings above.
- Exodus 38:5 ἐπάνωθεν And he made the propitiatory over the ark of pure gold,
- Judges 3:21 ἐπάνωθεν And it came to pass as he arose, that Aod stretched forth his left hand, and took the dagger off his right thigh, and plunged it into his belly;
- Judges 4:15 ἐπάνωθεν And the Lord discomfited Sisara, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barac: and Sisara descended from off his chariot, and fled on his feet.
- Judges 8:13 ἐπάνωθεν And Gedeon the son of Joas returned from the battle, down from the battle of Ares.
- 2 Samuel 24:25 ἐπάνωθεν And David built there an altar to the Lord, and offered up whole burnt offerings and peace-offerings: and Solomon made an addition to the altar afterwards, for it was little at first. And the Lord listened to the land, and the plague was stayed from Israel.
- 1 Kings 2:4 ἐπάνωθεν that the Lord may confirm his word which he spoke, saying, If your children shall take heed to their way to walk before me in truth with all their heart, I promise you, saying, there shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.
- 1 Kings 7:9 ἐπάνωθεν
- 1 Kings 7:13 ἐπάνωθεν And king Solomon sent, and took Chiram out of Tyre,
- 1 Kings 7:16 ἐπάνωθεν And he made two molten capitals to put on the heads of the pillars: five cubits was the height of one chapiter, and five cubits was the height of the other chapiter.
- 1 Kings 7:48 ἐπάνωθεν And king Solomon took the furniture which Chiram made for the house of the Lord, the golden altar, and the golden table of show bread.
- 1 Kings 8:7 ἐπάνωθεν For the cherubs spread out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark and its holy things above.
- 2 Kings 2:3 ἐπάνωθεν And the sons of the prophets who were in Baethel came to Elisaie, and said to him, Do you know, that the Lord this day is going to take your lord away from your head? And he said, Yes, I know it; be silent.
- 2 Kings 2:5 ἐπάνωθεν And the sons of the prophets who were in Jericho drew near to Elisaie, and said to him, Do you know that the Lord is about to take away your master today from your head? And he said, Yes, I know it; hold your peace.
- 2 Kings 2:13 ἐπάνωθεν And Elisaie took up the mantle of Eliu, which fell from off him upon Elisaie; and Elisaie returned, and stood upon the brink of Jordan;
- 2 Kings 2:14 ἐπάνωθεν and he took the mantle of Eliu, which fell from off him, and struck the water, and said, Where is the Lord God of Eliu? and he struck the waters, and they were divided hither and there; and Elisaie went over.
- 2 Kings 10:31 ἐπάνωθεν But Ju took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: he departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.
- 2 Kings 17:21 ἐπάνωθεν Forasmuch as Israel revolted from the house of David, and they made Jeroboam the son of Nabat king: and Jeroboam drew off Israel from following the Lord, and led them to sin a great sin.
- 2 Kings 17:23 ἐπάνωθεν until the Lord removed Israel from his presence, as the Lord spoke by all his servants the prophets; and Israel was removed from off their land to the Assyrians until this day.
- 2 Kings 25:5 ἐπάνωθεν And the force of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho: and all his army was dispersed from about him.
- 2 Kings 25:21 ἐπάνωθεν And the king of Babylon struck them and killed them at Reblatha in the land of Aemath. So Juda was carried away from his land.
- 2 Kings 25:28 ἐπάνωθεν And he spoke kindly to him, and set his throne above the thrones of the kings that were with him in Babylon;
- 1 Chronicles 29:25 ἐπάνωθεν And the Lord magnified Solomon over all Israel, and gave him royal glory, such as was not upon any king before him.
- 2 Chronicles 5:8 ἐπάνωθεν And the cherubs stretched out their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubs covered the ark, and its staves above.
- Ezra 22:37 ἐπάνωθεν
- Job 18:16 ἐπάνωθεν His roots shall be dried up from beneath, and his crop shall fall away from above.
- Ezekiel 1:22 ἐπάνωθεν And the likeness over the heads of the living creatures was as a firmament, as the appearance of crystal, spread out over their wings above.
- Ezekiel 40:43 ἐπάνωθεν And they shall have within a border of hewn stone round about of a span broad, and over the tables above screens for covering them from the wet and from the heat.
- Amos 2:9 ἐπάνωθεν Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite from before them, whose height was as the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
About this word
About this word
ἐπάνωθεν (epánōthen), “from above, over,” 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 30 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 →