λῆμμα
oracle, burden
Where this word appears
Every passage where λῆμμα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 17 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 9:25 λῆμμα And Ju said to Badecar his chief officer, Cast him into the portion of ground of Nabuthai the Jezraelite, for I and you remember, riding as we were on chariots after Achaab his father, that the Lord took up this burden against him, saying,
- Job 31:23 λῆμμα For the fear of the Lord constrained me, and I can’t bear up by reason of his burden.
- Jeremiah 23:33 λῆμμα And if this people, or the priest, or the prophet, should ask, What is the burden of the Lord? then you shall say to them, You⌃ are the burden, and I will dash you down, says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 23:33 λῆμμα And if this people, or the priest, or the prophet, should ask, What is the burden of the Lord? then you shall say to them, You⌃ are the burden, and I will dash you down, says the Lord.
- Jeremiah 23:34 λῆμμα As for the prophet, and the priests, and the people, who shall say, The burden of the Lord, I will even take vengeance on that man, and on his house.
- Jeremiah 23:36 λῆμμα And do you⌃ name no more the burden of the Lord; for his own word shall be a man's burden.
- Jeremiah 23:36 λῆμμα And do you⌃ name no more the burden of the Lord; for his own word shall be a man's burden.
- Jeremiah 23:38 λῆμμα Therefore thus says the Lord our God; Because you⌃ have spoken this word, The burden of the Lord, and I sent to you, saying, you⌃ shall not say, The burden of the Lord;
- Jeremiah 23:38 λῆμμα Therefore thus says the Lord our God; Because you⌃ have spoken this word, The burden of the Lord, and I sent to you, saying, you⌃ shall not say, The burden of the Lord;
- Lamentations 2:14 λῆμμα NUN. Your prophets have seen for you vanities and folly: and they have not revealed your iniquity, to turn back your captivity; but they have seen for you vain burdens, and worthless visions.
- Nahum 1:1 λῆμμα The burden of Nineve: the book of the vision of Naum the Elkesite.
- Habakkuk 1:1 λῆμμα The burden which the prophet Ambacum saw.
- Habakkuk 1:7 λῆμμα He is terrible and famous; his judgment shall proceed of himself, and his dignity shall come out of himself.
- Haggai 2:14 λῆμμα And Aggaeus said, If a defiled person who is unclean by reason of a dead body, touch any of these, shall it be defiled? And the priests answered and said, It shall be defiled.
- Zechariah 9:1 λῆμμα The burden of the word of the Lord, in the land of Sedrach, and his sacrifice shall be in Damascus; for the Lord looks upon men, and upon all the tribes of Israel.
- Zechariah 12:1 λῆμμα The burden of the word of the Lord for Israel; says the Lord, that stretches out the sky, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him.
- Malachi 1:1 λῆμμα The burden of the word of the Lord to Israel by the hand of his messenger. Lay it, I pray you, to heart.
About this word
About this word
λῆμμα (lē̂mma), “oracle, burden,” 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 17 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 →