κατασκοπεύω
spy out, reconnoiter
Where this word appears
Every passage where κατασκοπεύω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 11 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 42:30 κατασκοπεύω The man, the lord of the land, spoke harsh words to us, and put us in prison as spies of the land.
- Exodus 2:4 κατασκοπεύω And his sister was watching from a distance, to learn what would happen to him.
- Deuteronomy 1:24 κατασκοπεύω And they turned and went up to the mountain, and they came as far as the valley of the cluster, and surveyed it.
- Joshua 2:1 κατασκοπεύω And Joshua the son of Naue sent out of Sattin two young men to spy the land, saying, Go up and view the land and Jericho: and the two young men went and entered into Jericho; and they entered into the house of a harlot, whose name was Raab, and lodged there.
- Joshua 2:2 κατασκοπεύω And it was reported to the king of Jericho, saying, Men of the sons of Israel have come in hither to spy the land.
- Joshua 2:3 κατασκοπεύω And the king of Jericho sent and spoke to Raab, saying, Bring out the men that entered into your house this night; for they are come to spy out the land.
- Joshua 6:22 κατασκοπεύω And Joshua said to the two young men who had acted a spies, Go into the house of the woman, and bring her out thence, and all that she has.
- Joshua 6:23 κατασκοπεύω And the two young men who had spied out the city entered into the house of the woman, and brought out Raab the harlot, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and her kindred, and all that she had; and they set her without the camp of Israel.
- Joshua 6:25 κατασκοπεύω And Joshua saved alive Raab the harlot, and all the house of her father, and caused her to dwell in Israel until this day, because she hid the spies which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
- Joshua 6:25 κατασκοπεύω And Joshua saved alive Raab the harlot, and all the house of her father, and caused her to dwell in Israel until this day, because she hid the spies which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
- Joshua 14:7 κατασκοπεύω For I was forty years old when Moses the servant of God sent me out of Cades Barne to spy out the land; and I returned him an answer according to his mind.
About this word
About this word
κατασκοπεύω (kataskopeúō), “spy out, reconnoiter,” 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 11 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 →
