λεαίνω
smooth, grind
Where this word appears
Every passage where λεαίνω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 3 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 Samuel 22:43 λεαίνω And I ground them as the dust of the earth, I beat them small as the mire of the streets.
- Job 14:19 λεαίνω The waters wear the stones, and waters falling headlong overflow a heap of the earth: and you destroy the hope of man.
- Psalms 17:43 λεαίνω Deliver me from the gain sayings of the people: you shall make me head of the Gentiles: a people whom I knew not served me,
About this word
About this word
λεαίνω (leaínō), “smooth, grind,” 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 3 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 →
