καταπτήσσω
cower, crouch in fear
Where this word appears
Every passage where καταπτήσσω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 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.
- Joshua 2:24 καταπτήσσω And they said to Joshua, The Lord has delivered all the land into our power, and all the inhabitants of that land tremble because of us.
- Proverbs 28:14 καταπτήσσω Blessed is the man who religiously fears always: but the hard of heart shall fall into mischiefs.
- Proverbs 29:9 καταπτήσσω A wise man shall judge nations: but a worthless man being angry laughs and fears not.
- Proverbs 30:30 καταπτήσσω A lion's whelp, stronger than all other beasts, which turns not away, nor fears any beast;
About this word
About this word
καταπτήσσω (kataptḗssō), “cower, crouch in fear,” 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 4 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 →
