λάκκος
pit, cistern
Where this word appears
A sample of passages — one per book it occurs in — where λάκκος appears in the Greek Septuagint (of 63 total occurrences). 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.
- Genesis 37:20 λάκκος Now then come, let us kill him, and cast him into one of the pits; and we will say, An evil wild beast has devoured him; and we shall see what his dreams will be.
- Exodus 12:29 λάκκος And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao that sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the captive-maid in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all cattle.
- Leviticus 11:36 λάκκος Only if the water be of fountains of water, or a pool, or confluence of water, it shall be clean; but he that touches their carcasses shall be unclean.
- Numbers 20:17 λάκκος We will pass through your land: we will not go through the fields, nor through the vineyards, nor will we drink water out of your cistern: we will go by the king's highway; we will not turn aside to the right hand or to the left, until we have passed your borders.
- Deuteronomy 6:11 λάκκος houses full of all good things which you did not fill, wells dug in the rock which you did not dig, vineyards and olive yards which you did not plant, then having eaten and been filled,
- Judges 15:19 λάκκος And God broke open a hollow place in the jaw, and there came thence water, and he drank; and his spirit returned and he revived: therefore the name of the fountain was called 'The well of the invoker,' which is in Lechi, until this day.
- 1 Samuel 13:6 λάκκος And the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait so that they could not draw near, and the people hid themselves in caves, and sheepfolds, and rocks, and ditches, and pits.
- 2 Samuel 17:18 λάκκος But a young man saw them and told Abessalom: and the two went quickly, and entered into the house of a man in Baurim; and he had a well in his court, and they went down into it.
- 2 Kings 18:31 λάκκος for thus says the king of the Assyrians, Gain my favor, and come forth to me, and every man shall drink of the wine of his own vine, and every man shall eat of his own fig tree, and shall drink water out of his own cistern;
- 1 Chronicles 11:17 λάκκος And David longed, and said, Who will give me water to drink of the well of Bethleem, that is in the gate?
- 2 Chronicles 26:10 λάκκος And he built towers in the wilderness, and dug many wells, for he had many cattle in the low country and in the plain; and vinedressers in the mountain country and in Carmel: for he was a husbandman.
- Ezra 19:25 λάκκος
- Psalms 7:16 λάκκος His trouble shall return on his own head, and his unrighteousness shall come down on his own crown.
- Ecclesiastes 12:6 λάκκος before the silver cord be let go, or the choice gold be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel run down to the cistern;
- Isaiah 36:16 λάκκος Listen not to Ezekias: thus says the king of the Assyrians, If you⌃ wish to be blessed, come out to me: and you⌃ shall eat every one of his vine and his fig-trees, and you⌃ shall drink water out of your own cisterns:
- Jeremiah 2:13 λάκκος For my people has committed two faults, and evil ones: they have forsaken me, the fountain of water of life, and hewn out for themselves broken cisterns, which will not be able to hold water.
- Lamentations 3:53 λάκκος and laid a stone upon me.
- Ezekiel 31:16 λάκκος At the sound of his fall the nations quaked, when I brought him down to Hades with them that go down to the pit: and all the trees of Delight comforted him in the heart, and the choice of plants of Libanus, all that drink water.
- Daniel 6:6 λάκκος Then the governors and satraps stood by the king, and said to him, King Darius, live for ever.
- Zechariah 9:11 λάκκος And you by the blood of your covenant has sent forth your prisoners out of the pit that has no water.
About this word
About this word
λάκκος (lákkos), “pit, cistern,” 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 63 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 →