κοιλάς
valley, hollow
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where κοιλάς appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 46 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.
- Genesis 14:8 κοιλάς And the king of Sodom went out, and the king of Gomorrha, and king of Adama, and king of Seboim, and king of Balac, this is Segor, and they set themselves in array against them for war in the salt valley,
- Leviticus 14:37 κοιλάς And he shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the plague is in the walls of the house, he will see greenish or reddish cavities, and the appearance of them will be beneath the surface of the walls.
- Numbers 14:25 κοιλάς But Amalec and the Chananite dwell in the valley: to-morrow turn and depart for the wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.
- Joshua 17:16 κοιλάς And they said, The mount of Ephraim does not please us, and the Chananite dwelling in it in Baethsan, and in its villages, and in the valley of Jezrael, has choice cavalry and iron.
- Judges 1:19 κοιλάς And the Lord was with Judas, and he inherited the mountain; for they were not able to destroy the inhabitants of the valley, for Rechab prevented them.
- 1 Samuel 6:13 κοιλάς And the men of Baethsamys were reaping the wheat harvest in the valley; and they lifted up their eyes, and saw the ark of the Lord, and rejoiced to meet it.
- 2 Samuel 5:18 κοιλάς And the Philistines came, and assembled in the valley of the giants.
- 1 Kings 21:23 κοιλάς And the servants of the king of Syria, even they said, The God of Israel is a God of mountains, and not a God of valleys; therefore has he prevailed against us: but if we should fight against them in the plain, verily we shall prevail against them.
- 1 Chronicles 11:15 κοιλάς And three of the thirty chiefs went down to the rock to David, to the cave of Odollam, and the camp of the Philistines was in the giants' valley.
- 2 Chronicles 20:26 κοιλάς And it came to pass on the fourth day they were gathered to the Valley of Blessing; for there they blessed the Lord: therefore they called the name of the place the Valley of Blessing, until this day.
- Psalms 59:8 κοιλάς Judas is my king; Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I stretch out my shoe; the Philistines have been subjected to me.
- Song of Solomon 2:1 κοιλάς I am a flower of the plain, a lily of the valleys.
- Jeremiah 21:13 κοιλάς Behold, I am against you that dwell in the valley of Sor; in the plain country, even against them that say, Who shall alarm us? or who shall enter into our habitation?
- Hosea 1:5 κοιλάς And it shall be, in that day, that I will break the bow of Israel in the valley of Jezrael.
- Joel 4:2 κοιλάς
- Micah 1:4 κοιλάς 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
κοιλάς (koilás), “valley, hollow,” 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 46 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 →