γύψ
vulture
Where this word appears
Every passage where γύψ appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 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.
- Leviticus 11:14 γύψ And the vulture, and the kite, and the like to it;
- Deuteronomy 14:13 γύψ and the vulture, and the kite and the like to it,
- Job 5:7 γύψ yet man is born to labor, and even so the vulture's young seek the high places.
- Job 15:23 γύψ And he has been appointed to be food for vultures; and he knows within himself that he is doomed to be a carcass: and a dark day shall carry him away as with a whirlwind.
- Job 28:7 γύψ There is a path, the fowl has not known it, neither has the eye of the vulture seen it:
- Job 39:27 γύψ And does the eagle rise at your command, and the vulture remain sitting over his nest,
About this word
About this word
γύψ (gýps), “vulture,” 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 6 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 →
