μακρότης
length
Where this word appears
Every passage where μακρότης appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 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.
- Deuteronomy 30:20 μακρότης to love the Lord your God, to listen to his voice, and cleave to him; for this is your life, and the length of your days, that you should dwell upon the land, which the Lord swore to your fathers, Abraam, and Isaac, and Jacob, to give to them.
- Psalms 20:5 μακρότης His glory is great in your salvation: you will crown him with glory and majesty.
- Psalms 22:6 μακρότης Your mercy also shall follow me all the days of my life: and my dwelling shall be in the house of the Lord for a very long time.
- Psalms 90:16 μακρότης I will satisfy him with length of days, and show him my salvation.
- Psalms 92:5 μακρότης Your testimonies are made very sure: holiness becomes your house, O Lord, for ever.
- Ecclesiastes 8:12 μακρότης He that has sinned has done evil from that time, and long from beforehand: nevertheless I know, that it is well with them that fear God, that they may fear before him:
- Lamentations 5:20 μακρότης Therefore will you utterly forget us, and abandon us a long time?
About this word
About this word
μακρότης (makrótēs), “length,” 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 7 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 →