κατασκέπτομαι
spy out, examine
Where this word appears
Every passage where κατασκέπτομαι appears in the Greek Septuagint — 26 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.
- Numbers 10:33 κατασκέπτομαι And they departed from the mount of the Lord a three days' journey; and the ark of the covenant of the Lord went before them a three days' journey to provide rest for them.
- Numbers 13:2 κατασκέπτομαι And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying,
- Numbers 13:16 κατασκέπτομαι Of the tribe of Gad, Gudiel the son of Macchi.
- Numbers 13:17 κατασκέπτομαι These are the names of the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land; and Moses called Ause the son of Naue, Joshua.
- Numbers 13:21 κατασκέπτομαι And what the land is, whether rich or poor; whether there are trees in it or no: and you⌃ shall persevere and take of the fruits of the land: and the days were the days of spring, the forerunners of the grape.
- Numbers 13:23 κατασκέπτομαι And they went up by the wilderness, and departed as far as Chebron; and there was Achiman, and Sessi, and Thelami, the progeny of Enach. Now Chebron was built seven years before Tanin of Egypt.
- Numbers 13:25 κατασκέπτομαι And they called that place, The valley of the cluster, because of the cluster which the children of Israel cut down from thence.
- Numbers 13:32 κατασκέπτομαι But the men that went up together with him said, We will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we.
- Numbers 13:32 κατασκέπτομαι But the men that went up together with him said, We will not go up, for we shall not by any means be able to go up against the nation, for it is much stronger than we.
- Numbers 14:6 κατασκέπτομαι But Joshua the son of Naue, and Chaleb the son of Jephonne, of the number of them that spied out the land, tore their garments,
- Numbers 14:7 κατασκέπτομαι and spoke to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, The land which we surveyed is indeed extremely good.
- Numbers 14:34 κατασκέπτομαι According to the number of the days during which you⌃ spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, you⌃ shall bear your sins forty years, and you⌃ shall know my fierce anger.
- Numbers 14:36 κατασκέπτομαι And the men whom Moses sent to spy out the land, and who came and murmured against it to the assembly so as to bring out evil words concerning the land, —
- Numbers 14:38 κατασκέπτομαι And Joshua the son of Naue and Chaleb the son of Jephonne still lived of those men that went to spy out the land.
- Numbers 21:32 κατασκέπτομαι And Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took it, and its villages, and cast out the Amorite that lived there.
- Joshua 7:2 κατασκέπτομαι And Joshua sent men to Gai, which is by Baethel, saying, Spy out Gai: and the men went up and spied Gai.
- Joshua 7:2 κατασκέπτομαι And Joshua sent men to Gai, which is by Baethel, saying, Spy out Gai: and the men went up and spied Gai.
- Judges 1:23 κατασκέπτομαι And they encamped and surveyed Baethel: and the name of the city before was Luza.
- Judges 18:2 κατασκέπτομαι And the sons of Dan sent from their families five men of valour, from Saraa and from Esthaol, to spy out the land and to search it; and they said to them, Go and search out the land. And they came as far as the mount of Ephraim to the house of Michaias and they lodged there,
- Judges 18:14 κατασκέπτομαι And the five men who went to spy out the land of Laisa answered, and said to their brethren, You⌃ know that there is in this place an ephod, and theraphin, and a graven and a molten image; and now consider what you⌃ shall do.
- Judges 18:17 κατασκέπτομαι And the five men who went to spy out the land went up, and entered into the house of Michaias, and the priest stood.
- 2 Samuel 10:3 κατασκέπτομαι And the princes of the children of Ammon said to Annon their lord, Is it to honor your father before you that David has sent comforters to you? Has not David rather sent his servants to you that they should search the city, and spy it out and examine it?
- Job 39:8 κατασκέπτομαι He will survey the mountains as his pasture, and he seeks after every green thing.
- Ecclesiastes 1:13 κατασκέπτομαι And I applied my heart to seek out and examine by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven, for God has given to the sons of men an evil trouble to be troubled therewith.
- Ecclesiastes 2:3 κατασκέπτομαι And I examined whether my heart would excite my flesh as with wine, (though my heart guided me in wisdom,) and I desired to lay hold of mirth, until I should see of what kind is the good to the sons of men, which they should do under the sun all the days of their life.
- Ecclesiastes 7:25 κατασκέπτομαι That which is far beyond what was, and a great depth, who shall find it out?
About this word
About this word
κατασκέπτομαι (katasképtomai), “spy out, examine,” 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 26 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 →