μελέτη
meditation, care
Where this word appears
Every passage where μελέτη appears in the Greek Septuagint — 14 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.
- Job 33:15 μελέτη sending a dream, or in the meditation of the night; (as when a dreadful alarm happens to fall upon men, in slumberings on the bed:)
- Job 37:2 μελέτη Hear you a report by the anger of the Lord's wrath, and a discourse shall come out of his mouth.
- Psalms 18:15 μελέτη
- Psalms 38:4 μελέτη O Lord, make me to know my end, and the number of my days, what it is; that I may know what I lack.
- Psalms 48:4 μελέτη I will incline my ear to a parable: I will open my riddle on the harp.
- Psalms 118:24 μελέτη For your testimonies are my meditation, and your ordinances are my counselors.
- Psalms 118:77 μελέτη Let your compassions come to me, that I may live: for your law is my meditation.
- Psalms 118:92 μελέτη Were it not that your law is my meditation, then I should have perished in my affliction.
- Psalms 118:97 μελέτη How I have loved your law, O Lord! it is my meditation all the day.
- Psalms 118:99 μελέτη I have more understanding than all my teachers; for your testimonies are my medication.
- Psalms 118:143 μελέτη Afflictions and distresses found me: but your commandments were my meditation.
- Psalms 118:174 μελέτη I have longed after your salvation, O Lord; and your law is my meditation.
- Ecclesiastes 12:12 μελέτη And moreover, my son, guard yourself by means of them: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.
- Lamentations 3:62 μελέτη the lips of them that rose up against me, and their plots against me all the day;
About this word
About this word
μελέτη (melétē), “meditation, care,” 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 14 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 →