κυμαίνω
surge, swell (waves)
Where this word appears
Every passage where κυμαίνω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 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.
- Isaiah 5:30 κυμαίνω And he shall roar on account of them in that day, as the sound of the swelling sea; and they shall look to the land, and, behold, there shall be thick darkness in their perplexity.
- Isaiah 17:12 κυμαίνω Woe to the multitude of many nations, as the swelling sea, so shall you⌃ be confounded; and the force of many nations shall sound like water;
- Jeremiah 6:23 κυμαίνω They shall lay hold on bow and spear; the people is fierce, and will have no mercy; their voice is as the roaring sea; they shall array themselves for war against you as fire on horses and chariots, O daughter of Sion.
- Jeremiah 26:7 κυμαίνω Who is this that shall come up as a river, and as rivers roll their waves?
About this word
About this word
κυμαίνω (kymaínō), “surge, swell (waves),” 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 4 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 →
