κεντέω
prick, goad, sting
Where this word appears
Every passage where κεντέω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 2 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.
- Job 6:4 κεντέω For the arrows of the Lord are in my body, whose violence drinks up my blood: whenever I am going to speak, they pierce me.
- Lamentations 4:9 κεντέω TETH. The slain with the sword were better than they that were slain with hunger: they have departed, pierced through from lack of the fruits of the field.
About this word
About this word
κεντέω (kentéō), “prick, goad, sting,” 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 2 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 →
