κοῦφος
light, swift
Where this word appears
Every passage where κοῦφος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 14 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.
- 1 Samuel 18:13 κοῦφος And he removed him from him, and made him a captain of a thousand for himself; and he went out and came in before the people.
- 2 Samuel 1:23 κοῦφος Saul and Jonathan, the beloved and the beautiful, were not divided: comely were they in their life, and in their death they were not divided: they were swifter than eagles, and they were stronger than lions.
- 2 Samuel 2:18 κοῦφος And there were there the three sons of Saruia, Joab, and Abessa, and Asael: and Asael was swift in his feet as a roe in the field.
- 2 Kings 3:18 κοῦφος And this is a light thing in the eyes of the Lord: I will also deliver Moab into your hand.
- 2 Kings 20:10 κοῦφος And Ezekias said, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return ten degrees backward on the dial.
- 1 Chronicles 12:9 κοῦφος Aza the chief, Abdia the second, Eliab the third,
- Ecclesiastes 9:11 κοῦφος I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor yet bread to the wise, nor yet wealth to men of understanding, nor yet favor to men of knowledge; for time and chance will happen to them all.
- Isaiah 18:2 κοῦφος He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.
- Isaiah 19:1 κοῦφος THE VISION OF EGYPT. Behold, the Lord sits on a swift cloud, and shall come to Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and their heart shall faint within them.
- Isaiah 30:16 κοῦφος but you⌃ said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall you⌃ flee: and, We will be aided by swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
- Isaiah 30:16 κοῦφος but you⌃ said, We will flee upon horses; therefore shall you⌃ flee: and, We will be aided by swift riders; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.
- Jeremiah 4:13 κοῦφος Behold, he shall come up as a cloud, and his chariots as a tempest: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe to us! for we are in misery.
- Jeremiah 26:6 κοῦφος Let not the swift flee, and let not the mighty man escape to the north: the forces at Euphrates are become feeble, and they have fallen.
- Lamentations 4:19 κοῦφος Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky, they flew on the mountains, in the wilderness they laid wait for us.
About this word
About this word
κοῦφος (koûphos), “light, swift,” 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 14 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 →