κυνόμυια
dog-fly, gadfly
Where this word appears
Every passage where κυνόμυια appears in the Greek Septuagint — 9 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.
- Exodus 8:17 κυνόμυια So Aaron stretched out his rod with his hand, and struck the dust of the earth; and the lice were on men and on quadrupeds, and in all the dust of the earth there were lice.
- Exodus 8:17 κυνόμυια So Aaron stretched out his rod with his hand, and struck the dust of the earth; and the lice were on men and on quadrupeds, and in all the dust of the earth there were lice.
- Exodus 8:18 κυνόμυια And the charmers also did so with their sorceries, to bring forth the louse, and they could not. And the lice were both on the men and on the quadrupeds.
- Exodus 8:20 κυνόμυια And the Lord said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharao: and behold, he will go forth to the water, and you shall say to him, These things says the Lord: Send away my people, that they may serve me in the wilderness.
- Exodus 8:20 κυνόμυια And the Lord said to Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharao: and behold, he will go forth to the water, and you shall say to him, These things says the Lord: Send away my people, that they may serve me in the wilderness.
- Exodus 8:25 κυνόμυια And Pharao called Moses and Aaron, saying, Go and sacrifice to the Lord your God in the land.
- Exodus 8:27 κυνόμυια We will go a journey of three days into the wilderness, and we will sacrifice to the Lord our God, as the Lord said to us.
- Psalms 77:45 κυνόμυια He sent against them the dog-fly, and it devoured them; and the frog, and it spoiled them.
- Psalms 104:31 κυνόμυια He spoke, and the dog-fly came, and lice in all their coasts.
About this word
About this word
κυνόμυια (kynómyia), “dog-fly, gadfly,” 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 9 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 →
