κυπάρισσος
cypress
Where this word appears
Every passage where κυπάρισσος appears in the Greek Septuagint — 10 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 19:23 κυπάρισσος By your messengers you have reproached the Lord, and have said, I will go up with the multitude of my chariots, to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Libanus, and I have cut down the height of his cedar, and his choice cypresses; and I have come into the midst of the forest and of Carmel.
- Job 40:17 κυπάρισσος And the great trees make a shadow over him with their branches, and so do the bushes of the field.
- Song of Solomon 1:17 κυπάρισσος The beams of our house are cedars, our ceilings are of cypress.
- Isaiah 37:24 κυπάρισσος For you have reproached the Lord by messengers; for you have said, With the multitude of chariots have I ascended to the height of mountains, and to the sides of Libanus; and I have cropped the height of his cedars and the beauty of his cypresses; and I entered into the height of the forest region:
- Isaiah 41:19 κυπάρισσος I will plant in the dry land the cedar and box, the myrtle and cypress, and white poplar:
- Isaiah 55:13 κυπάρισσος And instead of the bramble shall come up the cypress, and instead of the nettle shall come up the myrtle: and the Lord shall be for a name, and for an everlasting sign, and shall not fail.
- Isaiah 60:13 κυπάρισσος And the glory of Libanus shall come to you, with the cypress, and pine, and cedar together, to glorify my holy place.
- Ezekiel 27:5 κυπάρισσος Cedar in Senir was employed for you in building: boards of cypress timber were taken out of Libanus, and wood to make you masts of fir.
- Ezekiel 31:3 κυπάρισσος Behold, the Assyrian was a cypress in Libanus, and was fair in shoots, and high in stature: his top reached to the midst of the clouds.
- Ezekiel 31:8 κυπάρισσος And such cypresses as this were in the paradise of God; and there were no pines like his shoots, and there were no firs like his branches: no tree in the paradise of God was like him in his beauty,
About this word
About this word
κυπάρισσος (kypárissos), “cypress,” 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 10 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 →
