μοχλός
bar, bolt
Where this word appears
Every passage where μοχλός appears in the Greek Septuagint — 33 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 26:26 μοχλός And you shall make bars of incorruptible wood; five to one post on one side of the tabernacle,
- Exodus 26:27 μοχλός and five bars to one post on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars to the hinder posts, on the side of the tabernacle toward the sea.
- Exodus 26:27 μοχλός and five bars to one post on the second side of the tabernacle, and five bars to the hinder posts, on the side of the tabernacle toward the sea.
- Exodus 26:28 μοχλός And let the bar in the middle between the posts go through from the one side to the other side.
- Exodus 26:29 μοχλός And you shall gild the posts with gold; and you shall make golden rings, into which you shall introduce the bars, and you shall gild the bars with gold.
- Exodus 26:29 μοχλός And you shall gild the posts with gold; and you shall make golden rings, into which you shall introduce the bars, and you shall gild the bars with gold.
- Exodus 35:11 μοχλός and the ark of the testimony, and its staves, and its propitiatory, and the veil,
- Exodus 38:18 μοχλός He overlaid the posts with silver, and cast for each post golden rings, and gilded the bars with gold; and he gilded the posts of the veil with gold, and made the hooks of gold.
- Exodus 38:24 μοχλός He made an appendage for the altar of network under the grate, beneath it as far as the middle of it; and he fastened to it four brazen rings on the four parts of the appendage of the altar, wide enough for the bars, so as to bear the altar with them.
- Exodus 39:13 μοχλός And the blue that was left, and the purple, and the scarlet they made into garments of ministry for Aaron, so that he should minister with them in the sanctuary;
- Exodus 40:18 μοχλός And Moses set up the tabernacle, and put on the capitals, and put the bars into their places, and set up the posts.
- Numbers 3:36 μοχλός The oversight of the charge of the sons of Merari included the capitals of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all their furniture, and their works,
- Numbers 4:31 μοχλός And these are the charges of the things borne by them according to all their works in the tabernacle of witness: they shall bear the capitals of the tabernacle, and the bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and the veil, and there shall be their sockets, and their pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle.
- Deuteronomy 3:5 μοχλός all strong cities, lofty walls, gates and bars; besides the very many cities of the Pherezites.
- Judges 16:3 μοχλός And Sampson slept till midnight, and rose up at midnight, and took hold of the doors of the gate of the city with the two posts, and lifted them up with the bar, and laid them on his shoulders, and he went up to the top of the mountain that is before Chebron, and laid them there.
- 1 Samuel 23:7 μοχλός And it was told Saul that David was come to Keila: and Saul said, God has sold him into my hands, for he is shut up, having entered into a city that has gates and bars.
- 1 Kings 4:13 μοχλός The son of Naber in Raboth Galaad, to him fell the lot of Ergab in Basan, sixty great cities with walls, and brazen bars, one.
- 2 Chronicles 8:5 μοχλός And he built Baethoron the upper, and Baethoron the lower, strong cities, —they had walls, gates, and bars;
- 2 Chronicles 14:6 μοχλός fortified cities in the land of Juda; for the land was quiet, and he had no war in these years; for the Lord gave him rest.
- Ezra 13:3 μοχλός
- Ezra 13:6 μοχλός
- Ezra 13:13 μοχλός
- Ezra 13:14 μοχλός
- Psalms 106:16 μοχλός For he broke to pieces the brazen gates, and crushed the iron bars.
- Psalms 147:2 μοχλός For he has strengthened the bars of your gates; he has blessed your children within you.
- Isaiah 45:2 μοχλός I will go before you, and will level mountains: I will break to pieces brazen doors, and burst iron bars.
- Jeremiah 28:30 μοχλός The warrior of Babylon has failed to fight; they shall sit there in the siege; their power is broken; they are become like women; her tabernacles have been set on fire; her bars are broken.
- Jeremiah 30:26 μοχλός Therefore shall the young men fall in your streets, and all your warriors shall fall, says the Lord.
- Lamentations 2:9 μοχλός TETH. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he has destroyed and broken to pieces her bars, and her king and her prince among the Gentiles: there is no law, nay, her prophets have seen no vision from the Lord.
- Ezekiel 38:11 μοχλός And you shall say, I will go up to the rejected land; I will come upon them that are at ease in tranquility, and dwelling in peace, all inhabiting a land in which there is no wall, nor bars, nor have they doors;
- Amos 1:5 μοχλός And I will break to pieces the bars of Damascus, and will destroy the inhabitants out of the plain of On, and will cut in pieces a tribe out of the men of Charrhan: and the famous people of Syria shall be led captive, says the Lord.
- Jonah 2:7 μοχλός to the clefts of the mountains; I went down into the earth, whose bars are the everlasting barriers: yet, O Lord my God, let my ruined life be restored.
- Nahum 3:13 μοχλός Behold, your people within you are as women: the gates of your land shall surely be opened to your enemies: the fire shall devour your bars.
About this word
About this word
μοχλός (mochlós), “bar, bolt,” 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 33 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 →