κολεός
sheath, scabbard
Where this word appears
Every passage where κολεός 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.
- 2 Samuel 20:8 κολεός And they were by the great stone that is in Gabaon: and Amessai went in before them: and Joab had upon him a military cloak over his apparel, and over it he was girded with a dagger fastened upon his loins in its scabbard: and the dagger came out, it even came out and fell.
- 1 Chronicles 21:27 κολεός And the Lord spoke to the angel; and he put up the sword into its sheath.
- Jeremiah 29:6 κολεός How long will you strike, O sword of the Lord? how long will it be ere you are quiet? return into your sheath, rest, and be removed.
- Ezekiel 21:8 κολεός And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 21:9 κολεός Son of man, prophesy, and you shall say, Thus says the Lord; Say, Sword, sword, be sharpened and rage,
- Ezekiel 21:10 κολεός that you may kill victims; be sharpened that you may be bright, ready for slaughter, kill, set at nothing, despise every tree.
About this word
About this word
κολεός (koleós), “sheath, scabbard,” 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 →
