ἕψεμα
boiled food, pottage
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἕψεμα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 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 25:29 ἕψεμα And Jacob cooked pottage, and Esau came from the plain, fainting.
- Genesis 25:30 ἕψεμα And Esau said to Jacob, Let me taste of that red pottage, because I am fainting; therefore his name was called Edom.
- Genesis 25:34 ἕψεμα And Jacob gave bread to Esau, and pottage of lentiles; and he ate and drank, and he arose and departed; so Esau slighted his birthright.
- 2 Kings 4:38 ἕψεμα And Elisaie returned to Galgala: and a famine was in the land; and the sons of the prophets sat before him: and Elisaie said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.
- 2 Kings 4:39 ἕψεμα And he went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a vine in the field, and gathered of it wild gourds, his garment full; and he cast it into the caldron of pottage, for they knew them not.
- 2 Kings 4:40 ἕψεμα And he poured it out for the men to eat: and it came to pass, when they were eating of the pottage, that behold! they cried out, and said, There is death in the pot, O man of God. And they could not eat.
- Haggai 2:12 ἕψεμα Thus says the Lord Almighty; Inquire now of the priest concerning the law, saying,
About this word
About this word
ἕψεμα (hépsema), “boiled food, pottage,” 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 7 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 →