ἐπιτήδευμα
practice, pursuit
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where ἐπιτήδευμα appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 53 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.
- Leviticus 18:3 ἐπιτήδευμα You⌃ shall not do according to the devices of Egypt, in which you⌃ lived: and according to the devices of the land of Chanaan, into which I bring you, you⌃ shall not do; and you⌃ shall not walk in their ordinances.
- Deuteronomy 28:20 ἐπιτήδευμα The Lord send upon you lack, and famine, and consumption of all things on which you shall put your hand, until he shall have utterly destroyed you, and until he shall have consumed you quickly because of your evil devices, because you have forsaken me.
- Judges 2:19 ἐπιτήδευμα And it came to pass when the judge died, that they went back, and again corrupted themselves worse than their fathers to go after other gods to serve them and to worship them: they abandoned not their devices nor their stubborn ways.
- 1 Samuel 2:3 ἐπιτήδευμα Boast not, and utter not high things; let not high-sounding words come out of your mouth, for the Lord is a God of knowledge, and God prepares his own designs.
- 1 Kings 15:12 ἐπιτήδευμα And he removed the sodomites out of the land, and abolished all the practices which his fathers had kept up.
- 1 Chronicles 16:8 ἐπιτήδευμα Song. Give thanks to the Lord, call upon him by his name, make known his designs among the people.
- Ezra 19:35 ἐπιτήδευμα
- Job 14:16 ἐπιτήδευμα But you have numbered my devices: and not one of my sins shall escape you?
- Psalms 9:12 ἐπιτήδευμα For he remembered them, in making inquisition for blood: he has not forgotten the supplication of the poor.
- Proverbs 20:11 ἐπιτήδευμα A youth when in company with a godly man, will be restrained in his devices, and then his way will be straight.
- Jeremiah 4:4 ἐπιτήδευμα Circumcise yourselves to your God, and circumcise your hardness of heart, you⌃ men of Juda, and inhabitants of Jerusalem: lest my wrath go forth as fire, and burn, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your devices.
- Ezekiel 6:9 ἐπιτήδευμα then they of you that escape among the nations whither they were carried captive shall remember me; (I have sworn an oath against their heart that goes a-whoring from me, and their eyes that go a-whoring after their practices;) and they shall mourn over themselves for all their abominations.
- Hosea 9:15 ἐπιτήδευμα All their wickedness is in Galgal: for there I hated them: because of the wickedness of their practices, I will cast them out of my house, I will not love them any more: all their princes are disobedient.
- Micah 2:7 ἐπιτήδευμα who says, The house of Jacob has provoked the Spirit of the Lord; are not these his practices? Are not the Lord's words right with him? and have they not proceeded correctly?
- Zephaniah 3:11 ἐπιτήδευμα In that day you shall not be ashamed of all your practices, wherein you have transgressed against me: for then will I take away from you your disdainful pride, and you shall no more magnify yourself upon my holy mountain.
- Zechariah 1:4 ἐπιτήδευμα And be you⌃ not as your fathers, whom the prophets before charged, saying, Thus says the Lord Almighty: Turn you⌃ from your evil ways, and from your evil practices: but they listened not, and attended not to listen to me, says the Lord.
About this word
About this word
ἐπιτήδευμα (epitḗdeuma), “practice, pursuit,” 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 53 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 →