λέβης
kettle, cauldron
Where this word appears
Every passage where λέβης appears in the Greek Septuagint — 27 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 16:3 λέβης And the children of Israel said to them, Would we had died struck by the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, and ate bread to satiety! for you⌃ have brought us out into this wilderness, to kill all this congregation with hunger.
- 1 Samuel 2:14 λέβης And he struck it into the great caldron, or into the brazen vessel, or into the pot, and whatever came up with the flesh-hook, the priest took for himself: so they did to all Israel that came to sacrifice to the Lord in Selom.
- 1 Samuel 2:15 λέβης And before the fat was burnt for a sweet savor, the servant of the priest would come, and say to the man that sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest, and I will by no means take of you sodden flesh out of the caldron.
- 2 Samuel 17:28 λέβης brought ten embroidered beds, (with double coverings,) and ten caldrons, and earthenware, and wheat, and barley, and flour, and meal, and beans, and pulse,
- 1 Kings 7:26 λέβης and its rim was as the work of the rim of a cup, a lily-flower, and the thickness of it was a span.
- 1 Kings 7:31 λέβης And there were axles in the wheels under the base.
- 2 Kings 4:38 λέβης And Elisaie returned to Galgala: and a famine was in the land; and the sons of the prophets sat before him: and Elisaie said to his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.
- 2 Kings 4:39 λέβης And he went out into the field to gather herbs, and found a vine in the field, and gathered of it wild gourds, his garment full; and he cast it into the caldron of pottage, for they knew them not.
- 2 Kings 4:40 λέβης And he poured it out for the men to eat: and it came to pass, when they were eating of the pottage, that behold! they cried out, and said, There is death in the pot, O man of God. And they could not eat.
- 2 Kings 4:41 λέβης And he said, Take meal, and cast it into the pot. And Elisaie said to his servant Giezi, Pour out for the people, and let them eat. And there was no longer there any hurtful thing in the pot.
- 2 Kings 4:41 λέβης And he said, Take meal, and cast it into the pot. And Elisaie said to his servant Giezi, Pour out for the people, and let them eat. And there was no longer there any hurtful thing in the pot.
- 2 Kings 25:14 λέβης And the caldrons, and the shovels, and the bowls, and the censers, and all the brazen vessels with which they minister, he took.
- 2 Chronicles 4:16 λέβης and the foot-baths, and the buckets, and the caldrons, and the flesh hooks, and all their furniture (which Chiram made, and brought to king Solomon in the house of the Lord) of pure brass.
- 2 Chronicles 35:13 λέβης And thus they did till the morning. And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance; and boiled the holy pieces in copper vessels and caldrons, and the feast went on well, and they quickly served all the children of the people.
- Psalms 59:10 λέβης Will not you, O God, who have cast us off? and will not you, O God, go forth with our forces?
- Psalms 107:10 λέβης Who will bring me into the fortified city? or who will guide me to Idumea?
- Ecclesiastes 7:6 λέβης It is better to hear a reproof of a wise man, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
- Jeremiah 1:13 λέβης And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, What see you? And I said, A caldron on the fire; and the face of it is toward the north.
- Ezekiel 11:3 λέβης who say, Have not the houses been newly built? This is the caldron, and we are the flesh.
- Ezekiel 11:7 λέβης Therefore thus says the Lord; Your dead whom you⌃ have struck in the midst of it, these are the flesh, and thiscity is the caldron: but I will bring you forth out of the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 11:11 λέβης And it came to pass, while I was prophesying, that Phaltias the son of Banaeas died. And I fell upon my face, and cried with a loud voice, and said, Alas, alas, O Lord! will you utterly destroy the remnant of Israel?
- Ezekiel 24:3 λέβης And speak a parable to the provoking house, and you shall say to them, Thus says the Lord; Set on the caldron, and pour water into it:
- Ezekiel 24:6 λέβης Therefore thus says the Lord; O bloody city, the caldron in which there is scum, and the scum has not gone out of, she has brought it forth piece by piece, no lot has fallen upon it.
- Amos 4:2 λέβης The Lord swears by his holiness, that, behold, the days come upon you, when they shall take you with weapons, and fiery destroyers shall cast those with you into boiling caldrons.
- Micah 3:3 λέβης even as they devoured the flesh of my people, and stripped their skins off them, and broke their bones, and divided them as flesh for the caldron, and as meat for the pot,
- Zechariah 14:20 λέβης In that day there shall be upon the bridle of every horse Holiness to the Lord Almighty; and the caldrons in the house of the Lord shall be as bowls before the altar.
- Zechariah 14:21 λέβης And every pot in Jerusalem and in Juda shall be holy to the Lord Almighty: and all that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and shall seethe meat in them: and in that day there shall be no more the Chananite in the house of the Lord Almighty.
About this word
About this word
λέβης (lébēs), “kettle, cauldron,” 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 27 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 →