κολόκυνθα
gourd plant
Where this word appears
Every passage where κολόκυνθα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 5 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.
- Jonah 4:6 κολόκυνθα And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.
- Jonah 4:6 κολόκυνθα And the Lord God commanded a gourd, and it came up over the head of Jonas, to be a shadow over his head, to shade him from his calamities: and Jonas rejoiced with great joy for the gourd.
- Jonah 4:7 κολόκυνθα And God commanded a worm the next morning, and it struck the gourd, and it withered away.
- Jonah 4:9 κολόκυνθα And God said to Jonas, Are you very much grieved for the gourd? And he said, I am very much grieved, even to death.
- Jonah 4:10 κολόκυνθα And the Lord said, You had pity on the gourd, for which you have not suffered, neither did you rear it; which came up before night, and perished before another night:
About this word
About this word
κολόκυνθα (kolókyntha), “gourd plant,” 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 5 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 →
