κηρός
beeswax
Where this word appears
Every passage where κηρός appears in the Greek Septuagint — 6 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.
- Psalms 21:15 κηρός My strength is dried up, like a potsherd; and my tongue is glued to my throat; and you have brought me down to the dust of death.
- Psalms 57:9 κηρός Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.
- Psalms 67:3 κηρός But let the righteous rejoice; let them exult before God: let them be delighted with joy.
- Psalms 96:5 κηρός The mountains melted like wax at the presence of the Lord, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
- Isaiah 64:1 κηρός If you would open the heaven, trembling will take hold upon the mountains from you, and they shall melt,
- Micah 1:4 κηρός And the mountains shall be shaken under him, and the valleys shall melt like wax before the fire, and as water rushing down a declivity.
About this word
About this word
κηρός (kērós), “beeswax,” 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 6 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 →
