καταφυγή
refuge
Where this word appears
Every passage where καταφυγή 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.
- Exodus 17:15 καταφυγή And Moses built an altar to the Lord, and called the name of it, The Lord my Refuge.
- Numbers 35:27 καταφυγή and the avenger of blood should find him without the bounds of the city of his refuge, and the avenger of blood should kill the slayer, he is not guilty.
- Numbers 35:28 καταφυγή For he ought to have remained in the city of refuge till the high-priest died; and after the death of the high-priest the slayer shall return to the land of his possession.
- Deuteronomy 19:3 καταφυγή Take a survey of your way, and you shall divide the coasts of your land, which the Lord your God apportions to you, into three parts, and there shall be there a refuge for every manslayer.
- 2 Samuel 22:3 καταφυγή my God; he shall be to me my guard, I will trust in him: he is my protector, and the horn of my salvation, my helper, and my sure refuge; you shall save me from the unjust man.
- Psalms 9:10 καταφυγή And let them that know your name hope in you: for you, O Lord, have not failed them that diligently seek you.
- Psalms 17:3 καταφυγή I will call upon the Lord with praises, and I shall be saved from my enemies.
- Psalms 30:3 καταφυγή For you are my strength and my refuge; and you shall guide me for your name's sake, and maintain me.
- Psalms 30:4 καταφυγή You shall bring me out of the snare which they have hidden for me; for you, O Lord, are my defender.
- Psalms 31:7 καταφυγή You are my refuge from the affliction that encompasses me; my joy, to deliver me from them that have compassed me. Pause.
- Psalms 45:2 καταφυγή Therefore will we not fear when the earth is troubled, and the mountains are removed into the depths of the seas.
- Psalms 58:17 καταφυγή You are my helper; to you, my God, will I sing; you are my supporter, O my God, and my mercy.
- Psalms 70:3 καταφυγή Be to me a protecting God, and a strong hold to save me: for you are my fortress and my refuge.
- Psalms 89:1 καταφυγή Lord, you have been our refuge in all generations.
- Psalms 90:2 καταφυγή He shall say to the Lord, You are my helper and my refuge: my God; I will hope in him.
- Psalms 90:9 καταφυγή For you, O Lord, are my hope: you, my soul, have made the Most High your refuge.
- Psalms 93:22 καταφυγή But the Lord was my refuge; and my God the helper of my hope.
- Psalms 103:18 καταφυγή The high mountains are a refuge for the stags, and the rock for the rabbits.
- Psalms 143:2 καταφυγή My mercy, and my refuge; my helper, and my deliverer; my protector, in whom I have trusted; who subdues my people under me.
- Isaiah 25:12 καταφυγή And he shall bring down the height of the refuge of the wall, and it shall come down even to the ground.
- Jeremiah 16:19 καταφυγή O Lord, you are my strength, and my help, and my refuge in days of evil: to you the Gentiles shall come from the end of the earth, and shall say, How vain were the idols which our fathers procured to themselves, and there is no help in them.
About this word
About this word
καταφυγή (kataphygḗ), “refuge,” 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 →