μετάφρενον
back, upper back
Where this word appears
Every passage where μετάφρενον appears in the Greek Septuagint — 4 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 32:11 μετάφρενον As an eagle would watch over his brood, and yearns over his young, receives them having spread his wings, and takes them up on his back:
- Psalms 67:14 μετάφρενον When the heavenly One scatters kings upon it, they shall be made snow-white in Selmon.
- Psalms 90:4 μετάφρενον He shall overshadow you with his shoulders, and you shall trust under his wings: his truth shall cover you with a shield.
- Isaiah 51:23 μετάφρενον And I will give it into the hands of them that injured you, and them that afflicted you; who said to your soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: and you did level your body with the ground to them passing by without.
About this word
About this word
μετάφρενον (metáphrenon), “back, upper back,” 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 4 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 →
