κέδρος
cedar
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where κέδρος appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 41 total occurrences). 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 24:6 κέδρος as shady groves, and as gardens by a river, and as tents which God pitched, and as cedars by the waters.
- Judges 9:15 κέδρος And the bramble said to the trees, If you⌃ in truth anoint me to reign over you, come, stand under my shadow; and if not, let fire come out from me and devour the cedars of Libanus.
- 1 Kings 5:13 κέδρος And the king raised a levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men.
- 2 Kings 14:9 κέδρος And Joas the king of Israel sent to Amessias king of Juda, saying, The thistle that was in Libanus sent to the cedar that was in Libanus, saying, Give my daughter to your son to wife: and the wild beasts of the field that were in Libanus passed by and trod down the thistle.
- 2 Chronicles 1:15 κέδρος And the king made silver and gold in Jerusalem to be as stones, and cedars in Judea as sycamores in the plain for multitude.
- Psalms 28:5 κέδρος There is the voice of the Lord who breaks the cedars; the Lord will break the cedars of Libanus.
- Song of Solomon 1:17 κέδρος The beams of our house are cedars, our ceilings are of cypress.
- Isaiah 2:13 κέδρος and upon every cedar of Libanus, of them that are high and towering, and upon every oak of Basan,
- Jeremiah 22:7 κέδρος and I will bring upon you a destroying man, and his axe: and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
- Ezekiel 17:3 κέδρος and you shall say, Thus says the Lord; A great eagle with large wings, spreading them out very far, with many claws, which has the design of entering into Libanus—and he took the choice branches of the cedar:
- Amos 2:9 κέδρος Nevertheless I cut off the Amorite from before them, whose height was as the height of a cedar, and he was strong as an oak; and I dried up his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.
- Zephaniah 2:14 κέδρος And flocks, and all the wild beasts of the land, and chameleons shall feed in the midst thereof: and hedgehogs shall lodge in the ceilings thereof; and wild beasts shall cry in the breaches thereof, and ravens in her porches, whereas her loftiness was as as cedar.
- Zechariah 11:1 κέδρος Open your doors, O Libanus, and let the fire devour your cedars.
About this word
About this word
κέδρος (kédros), “cedar,” 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 41 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 →