ἕψω
boil, cook
Where this word appears
Every passage where ἕψω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 21 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 ἕψω And Jacob cooked pottage, and Esau came from the plain, fainting.
- Exodus 12:9 ἕψω You⌃ shall not eat of it raw nor sodden in water, but only roast with fire, the head with the feet and the appurtenances.
- Exodus 16:23 ἕψω And Moses said to them, Is not this the word which the Lord spoke? To-morrow is the sabbath, a holy rest to the Lord: bake that you⌃ will bake, and seethe that you⌃ will seethe, and all that is over leave to be laid by for the morrow.
- Exodus 16:23 ἕψω And Moses said to them, Is not this the word which the Lord spoke? To-morrow is the sabbath, a holy rest to the Lord: bake that you⌃ will bake, and seethe that you⌃ will seethe, and all that is over leave to be laid by for the morrow.
- Exodus 23:19 ἕψω You shall bring the first-offerings of the first fruits of your land into the house of the Lord your God. You shall not seethe a lamb in its mother's milk.
- Exodus 29:31 ἕψω And you shall take the ram of consecration, and you shall boil the flesh in the holy place.
- Leviticus 6:21 ἕψω It shall be made with oil in a frying-pan; he shall offer it kneaded and in rolls, an offering of fragments, an offering of a sweet savor to the Lord.
- Leviticus 6:21 ἕψω It shall be made with oil in a frying-pan; he shall offer it kneaded and in rolls, an offering of fragments, an offering of a sweet savor to the Lord.
- Leviticus 8:31 ἕψω And Moses said to Aaron and to his sons, Boil the flesh in the tent of the tabernacle of witness in the holy place; and there you⌃ shall eat it and the loaves in the basket of consecration, as it has been appointed me, the Lord saying, Aaron and his sons shall eat them.
- Numbers 11:8 ἕψω And the people went through the field, and gathered, and ground it in the mill, or pounded it in a mortar, and baked it in a pan, and made cakes of it; and the sweetness of it was as the taste of wafer made with oil.
- Deuteronomy 14:21 ἕψω You⌃ shall eat nothing that dies of itself; it shall be given to the sojourner in your cities and he shall eat it, or you shall sell it to a stranger, because you are a holy people to the Lord your God. You shall not boil a lamb in his mother's milk.
- Deuteronomy 16:7 ἕψω And you shall boil and roast and eat it in the place, which the Lord your God shall choose; and you shall return in the morning, and go to your house.
- 2 Samuel 13:8 ἕψω And Themar went to the house of her brother Amnon, and he was lying down: and she took the dough and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and baked the cakes.
- 1 Kings 19:21 ἕψω And he returned from following him, and took a yoke of oxen, and killed them, and boiled them with the instruments of the oxen, and gave to the people, and they ate: and he arose, and went after Eliu, and ministered to him.
- 2 Kings 4:38 ἕψω 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 6:29 ἕψω So we boiled my son, and ate him; and I said to her on the second day, Give your son, and let us eat him: and she has hidden her son.
- 2 Chronicles 35:13 ἕψω And thus they did till the morning. And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance; and boiled the holy pieces in copper vessels and caldrons, and the feast went on well, and they quickly served all the children of the people.
- Lamentations 4:10 ἕψω JOD. The hands of tender-hearted women have sodden their own children: they became meat for them in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Ezekiel 46:20 ἕψω And he said to me, This is the place where the priests shall boil the trespass-offerings and the sin-offerings, and there shall they bake the meat-offering always; so as not to carry them out into the outer court, to sanctify the people.
- Ezekiel 46:24 ἕψω And he said to me, These are the cooks' houses, where they that serve the house shall boil the sacrifices of the people.
- Zechariah 14:21 ἕψω And every pot in Jerusalem and in Juda shall be holy to the Lord Almighty: and all that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and shall seethe meat in them: and in that day there shall be no more the Chananite in the house of the Lord Almighty.
About this word
About this word
ἕψω (hépsō), “boil, cook,” 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 21 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 →