μετέωρος
raised up, lofty
Where this word appears
Every passage where μετέωρος 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.
- Judges 1:15 μετέωρος And Ascha said to him, Give me, I pray you, a blessing, for you have sent me forth into a south land, and you shall give me the ransom of water: and Chaleb gave her according to her heart the ransom of the upper springs and the ransom of the low springs.
- 2 Samuel 22:28 μετέωρος And you will save the poor people, and will bring down the eyes of the haughty.
- Job 28:18 μετέωρος Coral and fine pearl shall not be mentioned: but do you esteem wisdom above the most precious things.
- Isaiah 2:12 μετέωρος For the day of the Lord of hosts shall be upon every one that is proud and haughty, and upon every one that is high and towering, and they shall be brought down;
- Isaiah 2:13 μετέωρος and upon every cedar of Libanus, of them that are high and towering, and upon every oak of Basan,
- Isaiah 5:15 μετέωρος And the mean man shall be brought low, and the great man shall be disgraced, and the lofty eyes shall be brought low.
- Isaiah 17:6 μετέωρος and as if there should be left stubble therein, or as it were the berries of an olive tree, two or three on the topmost bough, or as if four or five should be left on their branches; thus says the Lord, the God of Israel.
- Isaiah 18:2 μετέωρος He sends messengers by the sea, and paper letters on the water: for swift messengers shall go to a lofty nation, and to a strange and harsh people. Who is beyond it? a nation not looked for, and trodden down.
- Isaiah 30:25 μετέωρος And there shall be upon every lofty mountain and upon every high hill, water running in that day, when many shall perish, and when the towers shall fall.
- Isaiah 57:7 μετέωρος On a lofty and high mountain, there is your bed, and there you carried up your meat-offerings:
- Jeremiah 38:35 μετέωρος Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for a light by day, the moon and the stars for a light by night, and makes a roaring in the sea, so that the waves thereof roar; the Lord Almighty is his name:
- Jeremiah 39:17 μετέωρος O ever living Lord! you have made the heaven and the earth by your great power, and with your high and lofty arm: nothing can be hidden from you.
- Ezekiel 3:15 μετέωρος Then I passed through the air and came into the captivity, and went round to them that lived by the river of Chobar who were there; and I sat there seven days, conversant in the midst of them.
- Ezekiel 17:23 μετέωρος and I will hang it on a lofty mountain of Israel: yes, I will plant it, and it shall put forth shoots, and shall bear fruit, and it shall be a great cedar: and every bird shall rest beneath it, even every fowl shall rest under its shadow: its branches shall be restored.
About this word
About this word
μετέωρος (metéōros), “raised up, lofty,” 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 →