κροτέω
clap, applaud
Where this word appears
Every passage where κροτέω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 11 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 Kings 11:12 κροτέω And he brought forth the king's son, and put upon him the crown and gave him the testimony; and he made him king, and anointed him: and they clapped their hands, and said, Long live the king.
- Job 27:23 κροτέω He shall cause men to clap their hands against them, and shall hiss him out of his place.
- Psalms 46:2 κροτέω For the Lord most high is terrible; he is a great king over all the earth.
- Psalms 97:8 κροτέω The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exult.
- Lamentations 2:15 κροτέω SAMECH. All that go by the way have clapped their hands at you; they have hissed and shaken their head at the daughter of Jerusalem. Is this the city, they say, the crown of joy of all the earth?
- Ezekiel 6:11 κροτέω Thus says the Lord; Clap with your hand, and stamp with your foot and say, Aha, aha! for all the abominations of the house of Israel: they shall fall by the sword, and by pestilence, and by famine.
- Ezekiel 21:17 κροτέω And I also will clap my hands, and let loose my fury: I the Lord have spoken it.
- Ezekiel 21:19 κροτέω and you, son of man, appoint you two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may enter in: the two shall go forth of one country; and there shall be a force at the top of the way of the city, you shall set it at the top of the way,
- Ezekiel 21:22 κροτέω On his right was the divination against Jerusalem, to cast a mound, to open the mouth in shouting, to lift up the voice with crying, to cast a mound against her gates, to cast up a heap, and to build forts.
- Ezekiel 25:6 κροτέω For thus says the Lord; Because you have clapped your hands, and stamped with your foot, and heartily rejoiced against the land of Israel;
- Nahum 3:19 κροτέω There is no healing for your bruise; your wound has rankled: all that hear the report of you shall clap their hands against you; for upon whom has not your wickedness passed continually?
About this word
About this word
κροτέω (krotéō), “clap, applaud,” 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 11 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 →