μίτρα
headband, turban
Where this word appears
Every passage where μίτρα appears in the Greek Septuagint — 10 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.
- Exodus 28:37 μίτρα And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, and you shall anoint them and fill their hands: and you shall sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.
- Exodus 28:37 μίτρα And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, and you shall anoint them and fill their hands: and you shall sanctify them, that they may minister to me in the priest's office.
- Exodus 29:6 μίτρα And you shall put the mitre on his head; and you shall put the plate, even the Holiness, on the mitre.
- Exodus 29:6 μίτρα And you shall put the mitre on his head; and you shall put the plate, even the Holiness, on the mitre.
- Exodus 36:35 μίτρα And they made vestments of fine linen, a woven work, for Aaron and his sons,
- Exodus 36:38 μίτρα And they made the golden plate, a dedicated thing of the sanctuary, of pure gold;
- Leviticus 8:9 μίτρα And he put the mitre on his head, and put upon the mitre in front the golden plate, the most holy thing, as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Leviticus 8:9 μίτρα And he put the mitre on his head, and put upon the mitre in front the golden plate, the most holy thing, as the Lord commanded Moses.
- Isaiah 61:10 μίτρα and they shall greatly rejoice in the Lord. Let my soul rejoice in the Lord; for he has clothed me with the robe of salvation, and the garment of joy: he has put a mitre on me as on a bridegroom, and adorned me with ornaments as a bride.
- Ezekiel 26:16 μίτρα And all the princes of the nations of the sea shall come down from their thrones, and shall take off their crowns from their heads, and shall take off their embroidered raiment: they shall be utterly amazed; they shall sit upon the ground, and fear their own destruction, and shall groan over you.
About this word
About this word
μίτρα (mítra), “headband, turban,” 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 10 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 →