γλυκαίνω
sweeten, be sweet
Where this word appears
Every passage where γλυκαίνω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 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 15:25 γλυκαίνω And Moses cried to the Lord, and the Lord showed him a tree, and he cast it into the water, and the water was sweetened: there he established to him ordinances and judgments, and there he proved him,
- Job 20:12 γλυκαίνω Though evil be sweet in his mouth, though he will hide it under his tongue;
- Job 21:33 γλυκαίνω The stones of the valley have been sweet to him, and every man shall depart after him, and there are innumerable ones before him.
- Psalms 54:15 γλυκαίνω Let death come upon them, and let them go down alive into Hades, for iniquity is in their dwellings, in the midst of them.
- Proverbs 24:13 γλυκαίνω My son, eat honey, for the honeycomb is good, that your throat may be sweetened.
About this word
About this word
γλυκαίνω (glykaínō), “sweeten, be sweet,” 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 →
