κάλλος
beauty
Where this word appears
Every passage where κάλλος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 29 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 49:21 κάλλος Nephthalim is a spreading stem, bestowing beauty on its fruit.
- Deuteronomy 33:17 κάλλος His beauty is as the firstling of his bull, his horns are the horns of a unicorn; with them he shall thrust the nations at once, even from the end of the earth: these are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and these are the thousands of Manasse.
- 1 Samuel 16:12 κάλλος And he sent and fetched him: and he was ruddy, with beauty of eyes, and very goodly to behold. And the Lord said to Samuel, Arise, and anoint David, for he is good.
- 1 Samuel 17:22 κάλλος And David deposited his burden in the hand of a keeper, and ran to the line, and went and asked his brethren how they Were.
- Esther 1:11 κάλλος to bring in the queen to him, to enthrone her, and crown her with the diadem, and to show her to the princes, and her beauty to the nations: for she was beautiful.
- Psalms 29:8 κάλλος To you, O Lord, will I cry; and to my God will I make supplication.
- Psalms 44:3 κάλλος Gird your sword upon your thigh, O Mighty One, in your comeliness, and in your beauty;
- Psalms 44:4 κάλλος and bend your bow, and prosper, and reign, because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and your right hand shall guide you wonderfully.
- Psalms 44:12 κάλλος And the daughter of Tyre shall adore him with gifts; the rich of the people of the land shall supplicate your favor.
- Proverbs 6:25 κάλλος Let not the desire of beauty overcome you, neither be you caught by your eyes, neither be captivated with her eyelids.
- Proverbs 11:22 κάλλος As an ornament in a swine's snout, so is beauty to an ill-minded woman.
- Proverbs 31:30 κάλλος Charms are false, and woman's beauty is vain: for it is a wise woman that is blessed, and let her praise the fear the Lord.
- Isaiah 2:16 κάλλος and upon every ship of the sea, and upon every display of fine ships.
- Isaiah 37:24 κάλλος For you have reproached the Lord by messengers; for you have said, With the multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Libanus; and I have cropped the height of his cedars and the beauty of his cypresses; and I entered into the height of the forest region:
- Isaiah 53:2 κάλλος We brought a report as of a child before him; he is as a root in a thirsty land: he has no form nor comeliness; and we saw him, but he had no form nor beauty.
- Isaiah 62:3 κάλλος And you shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
- Ezekiel 16:14 κάλλος And your name went forth among the nations for your beauty: because it was perfected with elegance, and in the comeliness which I put upon you, says the Lord.
- Ezekiel 16:15 κάλλος You did trust in your beauty, and did go a-whoring because of your renown, and did pour out your fornication on every passer by.
- Ezekiel 16:25 κάλλος and on the head of every way you did set up your fornications, and did defile your beauty, and did open your feet to every passer by, and did multiply your fornication.
- Ezekiel 27:3 κάλλος and you shall say to Sor that dwells at the entrance of the sea, to the mart of the nations coming from many islands, Thus says the Lord to Sor; You have said, I have clothed myself with my beauty.
- Ezekiel 27:4 κάλλος In the heart of the sea your sons have put beauty upon you for Beelim.
- Ezekiel 27:11 κάλλος The sons of the Aradians and your army were upon the walls; there were guards in your towers: they hung their quivers on your battlements round about; these completed your beauty.
- Ezekiel 28:7 κάλλος because of this, behold, I will bring on you strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against you, and against the beauty of your knowledge,
- Ezekiel 28:7 κάλλος because of this, behold, I will bring on you strange plagues from the nations; and they shall draw their swords against you, and against the beauty of your knowledge,
- Ezekiel 28:12 κάλλος Son of man, take up a lamentation for the prince of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord God; You are a seal of resemblance, and crown of beauty.
- Ezekiel 28:17 κάλλος Your heart has been lifted up because of your beauty; your knowledge has been corrupted with your beauty: because of the multitude of your sins I have cast you to the ground, I have caused you to be put to open shame before kings.
- Ezekiel 28:17 κάλλος Your heart has been lifted up because of your beauty; your knowledge has been corrupted with your beauty: because of the multitude of your sins I have cast you to the ground, I have caused you to be put to open shame before kings.
- Ezekiel 31:8 κάλλος And such cypresses as this were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,
- Zechariah 11:7 κάλλος And I will tend the flock of slaughter in the land of Chanaan: and I will take for myself two rods; the one I called Beauty, and the other I called Line; and I will tend the flock.
About this word
About this word
κάλλος (kállos), “beauty,” 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 29 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 →