γλύφω
carve, engrave
Where this word appears
Every passage where γλύφω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 10 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 28:9 γλύφω And you shall take the two stones, the stones of emerald, and you shall grave on them the names of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 36:13 γλύφω and they made the two emerald stones clasped together and set in gold, graven and cut after the cutting of a seal with the names of the children of Israel;
- 2 Chronicles 2:6 γλύφω And who will be able to build him a house? for the heaven and heaven of heavens do not bear his glory: and who am I, that I should build him a house, save only to burn incense before him?
- 2 Chronicles 2:13 γλύφω And now I have sent you a wise and understanding man who belonged to Chiram my father
- 2 Chronicles 3:5 γλύφω And he lined the great house with cedar wood, and gilded it with pure gold, and carved upon it palm-trees and chains.
- 2 Chronicles 3:7 γλύφω And he gilded the house, and its inner walls, and the door-posts, and the roofs, and the doors with gold; and he carved cherubs on the walls.
- Isaiah 44:9 γλύφω But they that framed false gods did not then listen; and they that graved images are all vain, performing their own desires, which shall not profit them, but they shall be ashamed
- Isaiah 44:10 γλύφω that form a god, and all that grave worthless things:
- Ezekiel 41:18 γλύφω were carved cherubs and palm-trees between the cherubs, and each cherub had two faces.
- Habakkuk 2:18 γλύφω What profit it the graven image, that they have graven it? one has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.
About this word
About this word
γλύφω (glýphō), “carve, engrave,” 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 10 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 →