λαβίς
tongs, snuffers
Where this word appears
Every passage where λαβίς 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.
- Exodus 38:17 λαβίς And on the candlestick seven golden lamps, and its snuffers gold, and its funnels gold.
- Numbers 4:9 λαβίς And they shall take a blue covering, and cover the candlestick that gives light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its funnels, and all the vessels of oil with which they minister.
- 2 Chronicles 4:21 λαβίς And their snuffers, and their lamps were made, and he made the bowls, and the censers, and the fire-pans, of pure gold.
- Isaiah 6:6 λαβίς And there was sent to me one of the seraphs, and he had in his hand a coal, which he had taken off the altar with the tongs:
About this word
About this word
λαβίς (labís), “tongs, snuffers,” 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 →
